Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.

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.

Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.

Choices are powerful things. In fact, they’re more powerful than most things.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.

In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

Freedom, to me, is imagination, the power of imagination to create what we want and be who we want to be.

I want to someday be in the same position as John Elway, Joe Montana and Steve Young.

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.