The purpose of speech is to enliven the bliss in others.

We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.

Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

If you're too busy to meditate twice a day, you're just too busy.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.

All authors go to heaven

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.

Maybe it's okay to still be a kid every once in a while.

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism.

I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter - oh my God, shoot me.

One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.