There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.

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.

The more you love, the more you give, the more you get.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

Satan can never be as evil as our God is good. His mercy is limitless. His love is limitless!

"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."

The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.

Do you think God gets stoned? I think so ... look at the platypus.

Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.

It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.