(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary 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.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty face from day to day.

Turn you dream machine on and create the world you wish to experience through your imagination.

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.

I know not the way He leads me, but well do I know my Guide.

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.

So are we still trying to end racial politics or are there just too many advantages to some political parties for that?

I have to feel like I'm in control of my body.

I'll probably be punished for hard living.