Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.

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.

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

It is more important to do what is strategically right than what is immediately profitable.

Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.

The characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that searcheth hearts.