Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

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.

a bit of a dirty fighter, quick with cutting words that he later regrets and doesn't really mean. Then again, I wonder if there isn't always a grain of truth in them, somewhere

There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.

Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours.

I am a relationship girl. That's kind of just how I'm made... When you're in my life, it's actually very contained.

There's plenty of anger among Muslims in the world right now. How can you have more?

And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.

Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.

I'm never going to let nobody take those kids. They Michael's kids. They have no right to try to take those kids. It's going to be a big mess over that.

You have moments where you do appearances and people recognize you and you get fan letters, but that's after you've put in long days rehearsing, filming and for us kids - going to school on the set.

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.