Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

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.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe. Then I wash my face and check my karma.

And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.

. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in asserting our local community rights globally. We shall continue to do so.

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.