If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not other people or other things.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

Never discourage someone who is working toward a goal, no matter their speed!

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.

If people knew how hard worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.