“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”

Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?

All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.

To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.

Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.

When goodness is lost there is morality.

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.

New Beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

One accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose.

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.

I don’t have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

No one ever gets tired of loving. But everyone gets tired of waiting, assuming, hearing lies, and hurting.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Everywhere you go you hear things that are untrue. You’ve just got to learn that if I don’t say it, physically out of my mouth, on camera, it’s not true.

If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.