By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully.

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.

If you feel ashamed of ignorance, it's your fault.Try to make yourself acceptable.

Prophets foretell the future

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning of it all and the possibility of the reality of real fairies.

I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.

The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?