“Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.”

“The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.”

“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”

“The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.”

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.”