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

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.

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.

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

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.

Better the demon which makes you improve than the angel who threatens.

If winter comes can spring be far behind?

Simplicity simplicity simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify simplify.

It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places Ive been.

There is only a recession of the things that people don't want.

A strange, warm feeling swirled in my chest, and for a brief moment, when I looked at him, I saw...safety

It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.