Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

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.

You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.

Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

April is the cruellest month.