You can only lose what you cling to.

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.

...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.

The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.

Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

People die... Beauty fades... Love changes... And you will always be alone.

My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.