If you never assume importance, you never lose it.

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.

The process of creation begins way before one starts writing.

An atheist who is a statist is just another theist.

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.

I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.

Spend a day talking only in rhyme.

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural.

Yelling Irish you can sound like an angry Leprechaun.

When you feel happy, you look beautiful.