We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful. Yet, we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most - the way our mind functions.

Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.

We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.

It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.

Whether the Virgin Mary existed, I don't know. But the human need for her to appear in tortilla, that's what inspires my interest.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.