Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

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.

Til shade is gone, til water is goneInto the shadow with teeth baredScreaming defiance with the last breathTo spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.

I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

I'm 100 percent Jewish by blood, but by education I'm nothing. By affiliation I'm nothing.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself.

There just comes a time when it's so clear that moving on is the best decision.