The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.

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.

I have about as much artistic talent as a cluster of colour-blind hedgehogs in a bag.

If we walk steadily and faithfully...God will lift us up to greater things.

The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

In my heart of hearts I believe I was made to entertain.

I really never break the rules. I'm not scared to say what I think or if I really disagree with something then I'll say it, but I'm not kind of like a born rebel.

When I know something I like, I just want to replicate it.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.

I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.