Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.

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.

People's realities are the result of their perceptions.

Pastor Face Your Business” When people say this they mean that I must just stay behind the pulpit and preach

My favorite symphony is the silent song of the night!

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

Marshall took nonviolence a step further - beyond Gandhi.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day-or to celebrate each special day.