Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

Employment deprives you of innovations

The hardest - the part that's hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one." -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai

Seek grace and manna daily.

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time.

I race kind of sparingly.

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.