The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.

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.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

Grant me one hour on love’s most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores, Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours.

A year ago, you wanted to give up because we were losing, and now, you want to give up because we're winning.

If we cannot find a way, we will make one.

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.

Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.

Speech is the mirror of the soul.

Without identical twins, you'll never get to experience entering a hotel room with one of them and watching him run into the full-length mirror because he though he saw his brother.

I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another universe.

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.