From a withered tree, a flower blooms

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.

Every thought precedes an action.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

I would love to have been born in the 60s.

Stop and consider! life is but a day

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it

Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.

We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.