The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. Reach out. Take a chance. Get hurt even. But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me a V. Give me an E. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.

Harold, everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can't let the world judge you too much.

Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.