True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.

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.

Chits knew no ideology.

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

The earth itself is a great big magnet.

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal.