Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

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.

Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.

Such sober certainty of walking bliss.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.