Nature doesn't make long speeches.

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.

Strength is not defined by the load you bear, it’s defined by the amount you can bend before breaking.

With extra patient, realities will enfold.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.

There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.

Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?