To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

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.

And in my novels I live many lives. Substitutes of spontaneity to replace a dreary reality. How I live for those inky black words and kaleidoscope colored experiences.

It's a luxury being a writer because all you ever think about is life.

Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

I am a vampire. Blood does not bother me.

My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.

If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over again.

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.

On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily.