Let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours.

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.

Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.

Arrogance can be deadly.” The corners of his mouth crept up. “But you didn’t hear me say that.

Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories.

It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.

They can't scare me, if I scare them first.

I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.

The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.

Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in men?s mentality ? in their opinion about femininity ? women?s equality may not be possible.