Business neglected is business lost.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

It is never too late to be wise.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

Someone who does not practice what he preaches expresses only hypocrisy.

I read therefore I write.

I thank you for not snoring.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn't have an opportunity.

It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.

In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.

Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.