“True happiness lies within you.”

I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.

I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements , and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise.

Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.

You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.

Action will destroy your procrastination.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

I am not a human being, I am a human becoming.

I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.

When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

Red is a strong, happy, optimistic color, and I like having fun with it, you know? Like, when colors clash – I love that strangeness.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.

I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.