That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

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.

Hope is a great assurance.

memory is a shallow grave

The idea economy is a conversation. Try to channel or control that conversation and you will stop the chatter.

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved. You are loved with your head down. You will be loved whether you finish or not.

Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.