True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: "I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live."

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Be you. And everything will be divine-self.

The privacy of pride.

We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love.

I do not improvise in heels.

Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.

I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -

Sometimes you have to lie to tell the truth.

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.