"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." - Arthur Rubinstein

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them." - Thomas Merton

"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being." - Confucius

"Heaven means to be one with God." - Confucius

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy" - Dalai Lama

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him" - Buddha

"If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument." - Hugh Jackman

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." - Maya Angelou

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life" - Buddha

"I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself." - Gary Zukav