Heaven and Earth are not kind. They regard all things as offerings.

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.

No matter how big or small the service is, Always express your Thanks to the person who served you.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do.

I'm not a functional person because I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties but I never do that. I'm not really human.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." Longfellow "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.