The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.

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.

There is no limitations except those we create for ourselves

No one is mandating merit pay.

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

I'd have to say Bali's my favorite place that I've visited.

I will be the first black James Bond.

Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.

Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.