The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

The heart that gives, gathers.

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say, “We did this ourselves.

If you want to govern the people, You must place yourself below them.If you want to lead people, You must learn how to follow them.

Thirty spokesShare one hub.Make the nothing therein appropriate, and you will have the use of the cart.

One gains by losing and loses by gaining.

Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:name’s the motherof the ten thousand things.

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

Don't miss the blessing disguised as shit.

I had no tears to shed nor a prayer for the deceased... There is no hope for the hopeless.

People always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

You have a deeper connection with people who you have shared experiences with and shared pain.

I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.