“Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.”

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.

Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light.

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.

I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.

In doubt if an action is just, abstain.

I know what my strengths are and what theirs are and what the three of us do is play for the good of the team.

Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you’ve held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs – that’s what I am. That’s why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that.

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.

Good things that cannot be calculated or quantified are set in motion in your life and in your finances when you give.

I believe that when you have fans, they invest in you not just as a singer but as a person as well. It’s not enough to just have good songs and a good voice.

I inherited good skin from my mother, and I stay away from soap, which dries it out.