All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow.

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.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book, and a tired man who wants a book to read.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young.

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.