The master understands that the universe is forever out of control

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.

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

Avoiding change is denying the path that leads to your spiritual growth.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!

O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed.

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

As an optimist, I choose to be glass-half-full about [Donald Trump] while still very cautiously appreciating and understanding the fear that a lot of our fellow citizens have.

Solve 90% of the problem as simply as you can, and then remove the other 10% from the problem requirements.