Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.

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.

I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it.

If we begin to diligently care for the environment, it will greatly improve human health.

Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There’s the ancient connection right there.

In Damascus:poems become diaphanousThey’re neither sensualnor intellectualthey are what echo saysto echo . . .

A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable. . . .

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.