While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

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.

The most progressive approach to life is to discuss ideas than people.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

Presidents aren't supposed to spit, at least not obviously.

I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

I am convinced that companies should put staff first, customers second and shareholders third - ultimately that's in the best interest of customers and shareholders.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.