Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.

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.

If you or I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

If you can find just one place of pleasure within, than you can find the courage to persist.

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

Energy is under siege by the Obama administration.

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

Pause and remember - The only person you need to believe in you is - you!

The wretched have no friends.

Human beings remain constant in their methods of conduct.

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'