The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.

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.

If you make a mistake, celebrate.

Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God

He will find out the hard way on his birthday that he has got a present he never wanted

If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.

Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.

It's a good time for black people to be alive.

In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.