People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern.

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.

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.

Investigation in our own life is far more rewarding than investigating life of other's.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

To him, freedom was greater than love. She hated that. Because she had always thought that love was freedom.

to love is to destroy and that to be loved is the one to be destroyed

Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do.

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.

The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.