One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

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.

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.

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

Whoever suffers knows the strength of suffering.

A day is a day. It’s just a measurement of time. Whether it’s a good day or a bad day is up to you. It’s all a matter of perception.

A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.

It dawned on me that no person is as poetically homesick as someone who has come to New York for the first time and glimpsed a small vestige of her home state.

I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun.

And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.

Give liberally. Go urgently. Live dangerously.

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.