Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

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.

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.

It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you

Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.

For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag.

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth

The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.