Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

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.

First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.

What we seek when we wander usually leads us back home.

I think my first album was a gift for my birthday and a Faith Hill album I loved her.

I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven't been brought up to create havoc in other people's homes.

If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

In addition, we will improve the Department of Defense's cyber capabilities. A new threat, a new problem, very expensive, and we're not doing very well with cyber.

For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.