The way is light and fluid for the man with no preferences.

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.

Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.

Men's evil manners live in brass

Whatever your grade or position if you know how and when to speak and when to remain silent your chances of real success are proportionately increased.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.

I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.

Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes.

Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich.

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing whats next and not following the trend of whats now.