Some of us are seeking happiness where it is and as a result are becoming happier. And others are seeking it blindly in the world where it is not and are becoming more frustrated.

Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.

You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

Don't probe darkness to understand light. Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love.

Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.

Anyone who takes on my sister, " he had postured once, all puffed-out bravado, "will have to deal with ...my sister." And then he'd dived behind her and cowered.

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job." -Dagny Taggart

Winning is a science, educate yourself to win .

Word of advice, kid. This may be the Wild West down here, but you ain't a cowboy. You're not even a boy in a cowboy suit.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

Mrs. O' Leary is my pet. I couldn't let you stick a sword in her rump, now, could I? That might've scared her.