We cannot study everything at the same time.

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.

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

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.

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel for it does not easily deface their own character nor render their purposes indistinct.

Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?

I mostly just listen to my body.

I'd say that the middle stanza is closer: that's the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm.

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.

He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.

Tikka Khan was a soldier doing a soldier's job.