Although there are weapons for tens and hundreds of soldiers, they will not be used.

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.

The most fundamental problem is not that we don’t have a system to run but those with knowledge are cynically manipulating the system for petty personal desires.

Write as if life has no meanings without writing.

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

I believe that if you don't have systems, you don't have a business - you simply have a job for yourself. My challenge has been to build those systems in a new restaurant setting.

My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.

When you make the U-turn to the Universal Presence and apply the Universal practices and principles, your life is changed.

We must often remember what Christ said, that not he who begins, but he that perseveres to the end, shall be saved.