The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao.

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.

I stared at my lap. I wished I were confident, I wished I were brave. I wished he didn’t scare me. But the more he spoke the less I wanted to look away, and the more I did.

Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

X-Men is massive, like nothing I've ever experienced. But great in its own way.

When Allah tests you it is never to destroy you. When He removes something in your possession it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift.

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.

Dreams are vague and far away. Goals are tangible and achievable.