The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.

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.

And The Monster Said "Pity The Broken Child As In You Pity The Insane

Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.

Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt

One does not hold a conversation with him. One holds a symposium. – Elizabeth Drew

Few things move as quietly as the future.

Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?

Its so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. Its like the worlds weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, Who is this tool standing up in front of us?

The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.

If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang.

You can't live with letting your feelings guide you, you'll get smooshed.