Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.

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.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

The great purpose in life is to take your destiny out of the hands of others.

I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre

Health and well-being are the natural state of the body and mind.

But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.

At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

I think most Americans are ready for waging peace and not just brutalizing our foreign policy which is boomeranging against us.

Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.