Laughter is a medicine you've got to use to drive away blues.

The secret of success is doing things not merely because they are popular, but because you deeply believe in them.

Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.

To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.

Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple knowing from within. That is the very meaning of the word "intuition": to know, or understand from within - from one's own self, and from the heart of whatever one is trying to understand. Intuition is the inner ability to see behind the outer forms of things to their inner essence.

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.

The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in Charleston, South Carolina, and my desire then was to be a playwright, and I was studying theater, and I went out one night, late at night, and I asked, "What can God be if there is a God?" I wasn't sure there was a God, but if there is a God, what must he be? Well, he can't be a judge, who's up there just waiting for us to make a mistake so he can clap us into hell. There's got to be something more than that.