When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

Only ego has fear. The Gnani Purush has no ego and so he has no fear of any kind.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour?

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.