The greatest revelation is stillness.

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.

Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man’s worst selfish instincts.

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

No one rules if no one obeys

Neither Heaven nor Hell are far from routine. The biggest danger lies in the perception of the proximity.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

People only disappear when they have somewhere to go

In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.

I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.''

No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

I still have shy qualities but nobody would believe that, just because we’re in the forefront and I can talk a lot of mess and I can run my mouth.