If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.

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.

Writing is a process of creating yourself again and again for an ever-searching mind.

A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

Time is passing...yet for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th.

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.

As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.

Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.