If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.

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.

I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me.

All the most difficult problems become easy when we find the solutions.

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.

Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner." Dr. Mahmoud leans in. "Life is managed.

I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands. I considered my work more as an applied art for musicians, not as art in and for itself.

Oh, I know what the ladies like.