If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.

If you want to know how good a tree is, examine how many birds flock to feed off of its fruit.

The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations.

Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.

Spirituality does not lie in meditating on the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you know, companionship - but not love.

The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.