What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

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.

God takes two and make them one but satan takes one and make it two.

We have come to love darkness of religion rather than striving to understand how the world is supposed to function.

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.

"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways