Can you care for the people and rule the country and not be cunning?

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.

Our lives are a picture of being overwhelmed by all kind of things going on in our lives and around us.

No matter what you seek to achieve, perspective makes a difference. All. Perspective comes from reflecting.

When a self-evident truth is presented, don't be surprised when self-centeredness fights back...

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.