Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

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.

People have motives, what they are, is what you need to notice.

Oh! lovely voices of the skyWhich hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?

I just got a new iPod. It's got 80 gigabytes. Because I like to jog for three weeks at a time and I do not want to hear the same song twice.

If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing - and you will have it all!

Our ideas are transformed sensations.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an utter mystery.

I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.

Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.