If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Live to the point of tears.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.