One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

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 best light which illuminates your path is your determination!

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Let's withdraw from Afghanistan and have the army invade America - that's the only way we'll get new schools and roads.

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.

I want to play many different characters.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.

What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.