The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

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.

Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.

It's your way of fighting. You refuse to engage and then you can't lose.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it.

They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.