Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

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.

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

People have to be realistic, or the dream just drags on.

God does love you and that, hopefully, you get to the point that you realize that having a relationship with God should be first and foremost in your life.

To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.

I am as much interested in the smallest detail as in the whole structure.

The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.

A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.