The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it

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.

I am a hopeful romantic. - Charlotte, In the Shadow of Angels

A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open.

Cosmopolitanism is a radical affirmation of the idea of neighbor/enemy-love-as-self love...Cosmopolitanism is about a cosmic scope of justice and hospitality––another name for _love_.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present.

I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

Once you close down your laboratory, you can't just rev it up again if you're able to finally get a grant.

The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.