You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.