The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

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.

More than anything, it is that sense - that despite great differences in wealth, we rise and fall together - that we can't afford to lose.

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?

the kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded

Sometimes you have to change. You know change is always good.

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings

All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's cave

Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?

Vegetables....a waste of good plate space

Young, gifted, and destitute.

Either we change our ways, especially the United States, or we will continue to lead the world in heart disease and cancer.