To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.

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.

Snape's patronus was a doe, ' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

It seems to me that wherever religion and politics mix in one body, fascist values - and not 'family values' - rear their ugly head.

Sooner or later you'll hear what your heart has always been telling you:stop trying to be who you think you should be - become who you are.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supersedes all-[Jewish] settlement [of the land].