The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.

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.

May the flop be with you.

I think because I was a mother, it helped me feel comfortable that really my primary goal there was to save my kids.

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.

Is not poetry the food of love?

I like strong girls, as long as they don't get snappish. And furthermore I think it important that you are good buddies and she does not get angry when you don't have your day.

Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.

I want to change, but not if it means changing.

The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world Shall bear the olive freely.