By moderation one can be generous.

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.

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

When the truth finally catches up to you, don't be a hero and run.

We have a calling: a need to be close to Nature, where she may cleanse our souls and wash away the stresses of yesterday. It is emotional recompense for the cost of living.

A dear friend of mine once told me that the only way around is through. I now live by this.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable.

The hideous god of war.