The more sharp weapons people have in a country, the bigger the disorder will be.

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 are you working towards everyday besides death?

There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.

[He] made me feel lonely, and being alone with another person is much worse than being alone all by yourself.

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.

He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)

Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.

First off, I'd like to thank God for changing my life. It let me really realize what life is all about. Basketball is just a platform for me to inspire people, and I realize that.

What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?

In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase.