(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.

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.

Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up

God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can't sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a way it is.

Allow everything else to vanish Save and except your cherished dreams, For your cherished dreams Are treasured sleeplessly By God Himself.

I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life.

I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!