We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

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.

I think that stupidity is like a wild fire burning through the social fabric of an intrinsically reasonable existence.

I need nothing but God and to lose myself in the heart of God.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.

Everyone has dreams. But it is what you do with these dreams that is important. Dreams, once you make the decision to act on them can become reality.

California is the most reactionary state in America. Fascist sentiments are very strong here.

If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.

Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people.