He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

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.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

It's our willingness to be vulnerable that will heal us in the end.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Strange is our situation here upon earth.

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

Actually, here is something I'm passionate about that, looking around me, seems like the world at large must not care about as much as I do: craft.

If America could get along with Russia - and by the way, China and Japan and everyone. If we could get along, it would be a positive thing, not a negative thing.

I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him.

Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.