Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.

If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible.

To achieve major success in life - to achieve those things that are most important to you - you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.

Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years.

To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision.

I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.

If you wait, people will forget your camera, and the soul will drift up into view.

I stand there, feeling broken and small, thousands of eyes trained on me.