If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.

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.

Does Hallmark make a “Sorry I tried to drink your blood and touched you in a vaguely inappropriate manner” card? I settled for “How much do you remember?

You should write a book, " Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.

Year by year, the monkey's mask reveals the monkey

Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.

They say love conquers all You can't start it like a car You can't stop it with a gun.