The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

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.

You have a powerful army, Kublai, but the best force is one you do not have to use.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table.

There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird.

In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

"You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered.

But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.