People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.

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.

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

Fiction is but a moment of bliss that takes the pain away...Like a cookie for the soul...

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them all, I suppose.

I believe in ghosts because I had a paranormal expierience once that was very personal. Though, every fiber in my being tries to convince me they don't exist.

There is nothing better than humor to keep a marriage going.

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.