Until you've tasted it [anything], you can't really know it.

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.

After a while, when she has forgotten him a little, when she realizes that her life and her are more to her than any man, she will tell me about it.

I like to look at the glass half full.

After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don't try out. Besides, uh, I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart.

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

I'm paid to make an idiot out of myself. Why do you do it for free?

Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.

My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage.

Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.

You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot: You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!