Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

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.

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate to. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.

If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog, or you will eat dog. You become what you focus on.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever.

The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

That's a powerful way to love, when you accept your children, however they emerge, with all their peculiarities.

Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

I think there was always something that everybody wishes they could relive in high school.