Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

Some say God caught them even before they fell.

The breath of life comes from God.

Alas poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest of most excellent fancy.

Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.

Qhuinn wanted to scream... Yes he has!!!

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize