The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things.

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 our ever-changing universe, lives collide, and, like runaway planets, we just keep going.

In that day every trial borne in patience will be pleasing and the voice of iniquity will be stilled

I am not a redhead, I'm a blonde.

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.

I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it.

For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering.

The most beautiful women in the world were African.

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

...and his eyes were so green they could turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.