All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.

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.

Kill the blames and you will put your shames into blazing flames. Look for solutions, not problems!

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

I see what those people [veterans] are going through. To see a doctor, sometimes it takes six and seven days and then you finally get there and the doctor is gone on vacation.

Our veterans deserve the very best, and that means ensuring that America's veterans receive high-quality services and cares when they come back home.

The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.

True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.

Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die

Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.