Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal.

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.

Love is the greatest attribute of God

In every end is the seed of a new beginning...water it well

Today's a beautiful day, and yesterday was a beautiful day, so that means it's a great life.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry that's its highest and best application.

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they're winners.

To pray well is the better half of study.

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.