Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

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.

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.

If you want a great life try being kind.

I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.

I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.

Do what is right, though the world may perish.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

Being grown up is boring. Besides, I don't get jazz.

We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?