The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

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.

Hope is a most beautiful drug.

The rain keeps starting and stopping like an anxious lover who doesn’t know if he should spend the night.

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

Even when people are so judgmental about what you wear or your weight you just have to step away and be like, 'I'm a normal, fine human being.'

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.

But it’s like Cherise says, the hardest ones to love are always the ones who need it most. (Aimee)

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men