To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.

She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?

Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

Busy yourselves with this, you damned walruses, while the rest of use proceed with the libretto.

For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.