There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

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.

When faced with many rejections, don’t give up. Hold fast to your dreams and keep up with sacred-work, you will succeed in the sacred-time.

No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

All men desire by nature to know.

I see the kids and I feel like taking them all away to a safe place to hide until the war stops and the hunger stops and El Cua becomes strong enough to give them the care they deserve.

I know it's not very masculine to say the moon is beautiful...but it is!

The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.