A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.

Whenever my mom talks too much, I say she has Pac-man of the mouth.

The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.

The rules of life are nothing that cannot be fixed.

I refuse to be silenced.

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

Donald Trump isn't doing anyone any favors by running to be the most powerful person on the planet, right?

I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories.

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

Pessimism does win us great happy moments.