The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.

Until you've tasted it [anything], you can't really know it.

If anything or anyone distresses you, think how you'll feel a week - a month - a year later. If you can imagine yourself being happy and peaceful then, why waste all that time? Be happy and peaceful now.

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

It's not insincere to say you're happy if your determined to make it true and live in that consciousness.

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

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