Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

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. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

I got a chain letter by fax. It’s very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.