A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed.

If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way

That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.

Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.

We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance.

Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn.

One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him.

Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?

Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.

Faith Alone is what really matters.

Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryo of gold.

Your personal and professional lives will have to go hand in hand and will have influence on each other.

Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.

And all who told it added something new And all who heard it made enlargements too.

Communication services need interoperability to succeed - and Loopt is the first such service since SMS that is available across all major U.S. wireless carriers.

I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.

I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.

I dont see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

From now on you must pray for your people and yourself three times a day.

Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.