The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

Whoever wishes to be free, shall seek the faith of liberty.

Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings.

The cheerful loser is the winner.

I was assigned boy at birth but I have always known I was a girl.

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.

For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.