The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.

Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.

Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.

Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.

Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.

The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself.

Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.

Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them.

Never accept what you don’t like to do.

Is it a coincidence that success follows those who hand out its credit to their parents or teachers. Ironically, the converse is true as well.

The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

Reason is emotion for the sexless.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.

So parents, get your children's permission to watch!