Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

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.

Diamonds are the result of extreme pressures. So is success.

It's all about gold. It's all about gold, gold, gold, gold! Excess!

Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).

It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be

I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade.

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.