Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

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.

I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

I'm able to draw outside my own personal experiences. No one wants to hear the song about what I really did today, which is go get coffee and clean my apartment.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

The only thing I can count on daily is the unexpected.

I feel the most connected to my art when it comes from my real life and hopefully the audience feels that.