There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.

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.

Do not wait too long in living your dreams.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

My limo driver's white, my attorney black... 'Show me some love' like I'm Bernie Mac.

If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

Ive always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.

How wise are Thy commandments O Lord. Each one of them applies to somebody or other I know.

If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.