[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

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.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn ... is just to love and be loved in return.

Marina wouldn't want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good.

And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

It was like watching a man smile as he surrendered himself to drown in deep water.

If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out of favor with a ruling elite.

There's a sketch at every turn.

God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.