A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

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.

A dream is only impossible if you allow your thoughts and beliefs to convince you to believe so

The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.

Stay inside your head long enough and you may get trapped there.

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.

We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations

Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own.

However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.

The beckoning Hands Of God's hopeful Smile Will, without fail, one day greet The fruitful cries Of man's prayerful heart.

The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.