Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

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.

I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….

Because if its just you alone, you're not much of a threat.

As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive.

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.

Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow.

If you haven't got eyes, you shouldn't have wings

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

The Proverbs 31 woman is not the model of a perfect woman. She is the model of a committed woman under God.

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.