The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.

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.

Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.

Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn't believe.

I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.

I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.

The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.