The Great Vessel takes long to complete.

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.

Don't agonize. Organize.

If you scratch a great photograph you find two things: a painting and a photograph.

I eat five to seven meals a day and a couple of protein shakes

Lack of world vision in any Christian produces a 'pea-sized Christianity'.

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.

I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery

There is nothing personal about a personal ad.