If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.

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 wonder of life is infinite, yet most fail to comprehend this.

Was there ever something not known before it was recognized?

Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.

Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.

The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89

I am the eggman They are the eggmen! I am the walrus!

Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.