If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

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.

Everybody is a main character to someone...

People don't have to do things by half measures because they aren't getting paid for it. In fact, that's all the more reason to throw every ounce of passion you have behind it.

You shall overcome every limitation and soar high on Eagle’s wing.

The young must not scoff at the old, for flowers don’t bloom forever

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

I've never been on a movie where they play five-dollar Friday. I must not be very observant.

I like weird. I like weird a lot.

One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...)

Every important idea in science sounds strange at first.