There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.