The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

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.

A common human error is a tendency to recognize personal truths as universal truths.

The worst prison is not made of metal bars. The worst prison is when your internal reality does not match your external reality.

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.

My time has not yet come.

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

A king who’s innocent of the things of which he’s guilty?

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.

We need to remove unworthy from our vocabulary and replace it with hope and work.

May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, "no," courage to say, "yes," for courage counts.