There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

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.

Then, sometime during the fourth year, the omens will abandon you, because you've stopped listening to them.

Rather a drink be my master than a man.

Now as to politeness... I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.

Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints

Hey, girls, you're beautiful. Don't look at those stupid magazines with sticklike models. Eat healthy and exercise.

I would much rather have been merry than wise.

Less than ten cents on the dollar in the Clinton Foundation has gone to charitable causes.

People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.

When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream.