There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

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.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The difference between one person who is living in poverty and another person living in wealth is their understanding of what to do with time.

He had a real mother, and a stepfather named Bart who Martin called Fart but only with his brothers and James

As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

It can be here today and gone tomorrow.

I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.

There is a massive problem with veteran suicides.

The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.

New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.