Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

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.

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.

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

Will you not see?” she cried. “You are not as other men are. Why need you bow to a Fate? Can you not change it?

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I thought it wasn’t winning or losing but how you played the game that matters.”

You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.

One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.

We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.

If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.

Love is only one fine star away, even though the living is sometimes laced with lies.

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.