If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble.

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.

Your task is not to find a job but to find what makes you happy and do it with all your love.

I am a Jewish mother. My dying words will be, “Put a jumper on

The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply.