Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

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.

When you pray for others you're praying for yourself.

…nostalgia is, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings.

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

In a correction, other people's stocks go down, in a bear market, your stocks go down.

Once you run and once you win with an unabashed progressive feminist standard, then it becomes easier for everybody else who's running.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Whenever Hollywood makes films about us, it's 12 Years a Slave or The Butler or The Help. That is not the sum total of who we are as a people.

I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between "slim" and "slender."

And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.