True and lasting inner peace can never be found in external things. It can only be found within in. And then, once we find and nurture it with ourselves, it radiates outward.

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.

We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.

Feed a squirrel and he'll leave you alone every day.

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

A black President? Now come on y'all, we got Clinton, that's close. He got negro tendencies.

A woman's heart is much like the moon, always changing but always has a man in it.

One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive.

It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.