Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

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.

Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!

We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.

The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

When you look back at your career, there are moments that are levels that you hit and you bounce off them.

Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

When you walk inside the nature, nature also walks inside you!

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

Love and do as you will.

You can never have enough nerds, freaks, and weirdos. You know what I'm sayin'?