Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.

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.

History's shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is Hell.

Whatever you are trying to avoid won't go away until you confront it.

It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.

... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.

Traveling and other cultures provide me with great inspiration, especially unusual people and cultures totally unlike my own. They generate many new ideas for me.

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

Illness is the proving ground of friendship.

The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.

Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.