One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

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.

We make our own music. We paint our own future.

Death is a force, not a man in a horse

With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion.

I improve in misquotation.

We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy.

If I got a dollar every time someone told me to name my future kid 'Batmo' I'd almost have enough to pay for therapy for a kid named Batmo.

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.