The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.

Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.

Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.

Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.

Happiness is reverence for all life.

Spirituality means seeking experience. Not just belief.

Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

What are you doing for others is the ultimate end of true leadership.

If you are really doing all this for your kids, then why are you so mean to them?

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions

If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.

I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing...and adding to.