To be of few words is natural.

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 have a lot more things to talk about now because I'm an adult.

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.

You have to believe in yourself every day.

The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip.

The system is in place whereby if an umpire cries off, or both as was the case here, those umpires are to be replaced.

Recess and lunch are the best.

The UN platform was created precisely for this, to seek compromise, to communicate with one another. So it will definitely be nice if we make use of this platform.

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.