In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.

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.

The good news doesn't make any sense unless you know what the bad news is first, and the bad news goes pretty deep.

Rick Perry has now accused Mitt Romney of hiring illegal aliens to work on his hair.

England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.

Everything may not be OK but if God is with you, you will be OK.

Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.