Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.

The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable. Who can know it?

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.

You can be a model to the masses, but to go to the higher levels of influence, you have to work with individuals.

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

I'm a cop, and cops talk. They called me the day he did it, but did you ever hear me say anything about it? I played ball, because that's how I am. I'm true.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.