Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.

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.

Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

And we, from within the sigh of the trees, and the soft moss underfoot, and the calling of night birds, watched him as he watched, gazing where he should not.

God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing.

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.

If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.