We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.

Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.

Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.

If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful.

Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.

Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.

Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.

You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.

Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.

The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind.

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

If you have the opportunity to help, then you have the responsibility to do it, do what is right simply because it is the right thing to do

I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.

The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.

Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.

It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.