Contentment is natural wealth.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.