What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Never allow any of your time to be wasted on the frivolities of life.

Meditate, Ānanda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

Art is literacy of the heart

The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.

Surely mortal man is a broomstick!

When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.

If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.