Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.

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.

Children must be taught obedience just as much as they need to be taught to read and write.

Subtlety is the mark of confidence and is thus by far the hardest thing for a writer to achieve.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.

Little boats should keep near shore

You can't always relate to the big action things, but you can relate to small moments.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

Dancing is not one of my talents. But when you've had a few drinks anyone is a good dancer, right?