Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.

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 miss steps are the mistakes you must make.

When you cannot do what you have always done, then you only do what matters most.

Everyone's on the cliff edge of normal. Everyone finds life an utter nightmare sometimes, and there's no 'normal' way of dealing with it... There is no normal, Evelyn.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

What is success anyway? Is success about making the most money? No. Money, for the most part, turns people into jerks.

Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything has been discovered.

If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.

Oh, torture. Torture. My pubic hairs went gray.

WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.