In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass 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.

Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!

I'm thinking that I shouldn't have filed my nails last night.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

And there shall be a flame-green daybreak soon. And love itself will cry for insurrection! For tomorrow is also a day - and Titus has entered his stronghold.

Base not your joy on the deeds of others. For what has been given can be taken away.

I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance.