When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense

To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard.

Let bygones be bygones.

Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.

No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

We all make mistakes, but we need to learn from them and move on. You can own a mistake, or the mistake will own you.

Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.

I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.