If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?

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.

A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

Quite often, when I describe to people what I want, I'll say "overwhelming" - I want it to feel like it's phy

One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.

If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.

Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.

It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity.

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.