The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

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.

Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.

I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.

He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.

All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.