A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

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.

Be sure that head and heart were laidIn wisdom down, content to die.Be sure he faced the Starless SkyUnduped, unmurmuring, unafraid.(“The Passing of Bierce”)

When we can see the star of desire in our sky, we can use our wings of hope and our air of love to reach it.

Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing.

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

You'll never see me in the red leather. I don't have the chin for it.

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

If you want to meet the needs of the poor in this world, there is no better place to start than by preaching the Gospel.

I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.

I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it.