If you shut out all mistakes by closing the doors, you will lock out the truth as well.

When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

In love beggar and king are equal.

All work is empty save when there is love.

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.