Excellent warriors are not violent.

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.

The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.

Being a hero is the easiest way to meet a bullet with your name on it.

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

…we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.

Expect of Man God, and he will appear to be a beast. Expect of Man a beast, and he will appear to be God.