The great image lacks shape.

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.

Nothing is build, just like that, everything around the world has some value and the purpose.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.

I'd rather have weeks, days, hours with you happy and content than a lifetime filled with regret.

Never let your ego get in the way of asking for help when in desperate need. We have all been helped at a point in our lives.

I must get my soul back from you

Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death.

To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.

Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how shall I appear?

We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.