A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

Remain open to your dreams but don't be too quick to decide by what means they’ll come true.

A language is a map of our failures

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

Apologetics is reason flying to the rescue of faith

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.

It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is not that easy to say.

Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.