When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward!

The worldly life means a market place of sensual pleasures. Worldly life means false (temporary) happiness all the time. And moksha (liberation) means permanent happiness all the time.

Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).

There is no happiness in what worldly people believe happiness in, there is happiness in what Gnani [the enlightened one] believes the happiness in. What people regard as happiness is not happiness.

Things do not give unhappiness, ignorance (of one’s real Self) does.

One who experiences prasantta [blissful happiness] within, he will have prasantta [blissful happiness] externally. The mind is a mirror (reflection) for the external.

The law of nature is such that everyone gets happiness according to their needs. The ‘tender’ that everyone (of us) fills out, is indeed fulfilled.

The ‘egoism’ that is used to hurt others will hurt one’s own self. The ‘egoism’ that is used to give happiness to others becomes cause for his own happiness.

A person who thinks he is right, causes great hurt to others and that is why hurt will come to him. A person who believes ‘I am right’, causes a lot of pain to others.

Without the 'applied awareness' of the Soul, 'happiness' cannot arise.

Your success in worldly life (sansar) is in proportion to your faith and truthfulness!

Hope is a fine killing thing.

In order to be happy, every person must have: 1. Something meaningful to do. 2. Someone to love. (Friends and family and pets all count.) 3. Something to look forward to. It's really that simple.

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

I'm too conceited for therapy.

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

I'm living a life. I have nine children.

Great men always pay deference to greater.