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.

Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.

Foremost, step one could take is avoiding the cheap behaviour of compromising principles with decorated lies which assails the moral power of common sense.

All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.

Of course, you can never really know if someone is fully revealing himself to you or not, so all we can go by is our own gut feelings.

Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son.

If God doesn't build the vision, He will tear it down.

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.