There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

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.

If I expect nothing of you, it will be far easier to forgive your offenses than if I place my whole world in your hands.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

It's not possible to be close to God without thinking about the lost. They never leave His mind.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been

I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.

People are going to have their opinions. Whether it's good or bad, I don't really think about it either way.