Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.

Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.

Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.

Happiness is reverence for all life.

Spirituality means seeking experience. Not just belief.

Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.

The things we don't understand will come back again.

I'm the greatest living thing in the universe.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

Nothing worth having is easy to get.

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.

Today when someone shakes hands with Modi & looks into his eyes, they don't see Modi, but the reflection of 125 crore Indians.

I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset.

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

What I treasure most in life is being able to dream. During my most difficult moments and complex situations I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future.