All composite things decay. Strive diligently.

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.

You are my cry, you're my tears, you're my joy, you're my heart and love, only I don't know who am I.

I think our lives are surely but the dreamsOf spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres, Who as we die, do one by one awake.

My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.

Are you willing to die for what you believe in? The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

I found that while it was interesting to travel around and take the photographs, I would find that I was more interested in the stories behind the photographs. I was more interested in narrative.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.