The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

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.

People say I was made for thisNothin' else would I trade for thisAnd just think I get paid for this...

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

One does not beg for a glass of water from the devil.

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.

Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.