Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the soul.

But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in love.

Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Stumbling and groping through the wilderness finally must be replaced by a planned, organized and orderly march.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.