Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?

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.

Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is why did other people stop?

It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

Bigger people beat up little people.

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

Don't you know what marriage means in this world? They are mergers and acquisitions disguised as marriages. In other words, the takeover syndromes.

We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together.

It would probably astound each of them beyond measure to be let into his neighbor's mind and to find how different the scenery there was from that in his own.