Return animosity with virtue.

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.

Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.

Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long ago.

I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.

I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.

Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

There might be a lot of physical chemistry within a couple, but without the compatibility of life philosophy and interests then the relationship will likely not be long-lasting.

Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.

I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me.