"The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are."

"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile."

"The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisions."

"I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality."

"It's "wonderful "to know you're aging, because that means you're still on the planet, right?"

"Whether you're successful or not, you'll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you're really just setting yourself up for failure."

"Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think."

"I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy."

"What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?"

"It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up."

"We go into restaurants, and people aren't talking anymore. They're texting. While they are sitting at a restaurant with each other. So we're losing this intimacy that we need to have as human beings."

"My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are."

"Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young."

"I'm a dreamer with lots of energy and a vivid imagination. That's the recipe for becoming an entertainer."

"A lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work."

"I'll bike up the mountain, or I'll do Pilates or spin."

"So today we have to develop compassion."

"Earn the qualifications - holiness, purity faith and universal love - then He will approach you on foot, to console, comfort and save. If you have purity of heart and mastery over the senses, His Grace is your right."

"Try to sanctify your life by doing service and spreading joy and comfort all around."

"Believe that God is everywhere at all times, and derive strength, comfort, and joy by singing His glory in His presence. "

"Let us live without any conflict."

"In the vast cosmos, man is like a speck. Essentially, there is no conflict between man and creation. J"

"He has created duties only to foster the consciousness of all living beings. He has no activity and no obligation. He brings about the result for every activity. Without Him, no activity can yield result! He decides which result should accrue from which act."

"Mind can have peace only when it merges in the Absolute Consciousness, Primal Cause and the Unchanging Existence."

"Heart is consciousness, I is Baba."

"All levels of consciousness have to be purified and then directed to holy tasks."

"I like to cook, and I tend to make those one-pot meat dishes of my Hungarian ancestors. Also, I make a great Bolognese."

"To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy."

"My father was Presbyterian."

"Moms and dads don't last forever. If you've got unfinished business, we need to face that, and that's not easy. Every child wants to love their mother and their father. Love is the most important thing, and when they feel rejected and unloved, that hole can never be filled by anyone else."

"You have to prepare yourself first before you can create any kind of change for your loved ones."

"It's wonderful to move forward technologically, but we cannot forget that we are human beings who thrive on relationships, who thrive on interconnectivity, who thrive on sharing your feelings and emotions."

"When I turned 50, I asked some of my girlfriends, all actresses of the same age, 'What are we going to do now?' I wanted to go live somewhere for a while, learn archaeology, or take part in healing the world on some level. I wanted to dig deep and say, 'Who am I now? What do I have to offer? What do I have to learn?'"

"Continuing to listen and grow is important because we get into bad habits in relationships."

"Meditation helps people balance and calibrate their left-right brain."

"You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on."

"Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday."

"Celebrate the Birthday in your own village. You need not travel long distances to where I physically am!"

"Look at the world with the vision of peace, love, and compassion. Then the whole world will appear loving and peaceful."

"Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service."

"Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives."

"For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy. Without the above qualities, selfless service cannot be performed."

"God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace."

"The heart with compassion is the temple of God."

"Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons."

"If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion, then you are God."

"When the brain is silent, the executive function, which is this part of the brain that makes decisions, can work much better. So when you get quiet, you make better decisions. You're also more rested - you're not as reactive."

"A body smiles, like, 72 times a day. Where does that smile go? That's what I want to know."

"I don't eat a lot. I think we overeat."

"Getting older is a fact of life."