The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

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.

No one actually lives as if there is no objective truth.

Only thing on right now, like a night light.

Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.

Batistuta is very good at pulling off defenders

Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence.

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That's my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.