The most able seems clumsy.

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.

God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.

He threw me off the building into the abyss with his words. Oh, the ocean was so deep, but his words were so shallow!

The pain on the inside is what keeps you human, ' she said. 'Never forget that.

Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

We certainly don't yet know all the answers. But the universe is about to be pried open.

I think people are basically unhappy working their jobs, and we all need to have that thing that gets our juices flowing.

Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

At one time I thought that if I could really understand renunciation and bodhichitta from the depths of my heart, then, for this lifetime that would be enough.