You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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

What we think, we become.

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.

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.

Maybe not today, Maybe not tomorrow. But somewhere down the line, there has to be a light.

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government.

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

You are never angry for the reason you think you are. There's an older hurt under that.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.