We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.

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.

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.

Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people they think it's their fault.

Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're doing something happy and light, you need the shadows.

The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

I would recommend, initially, if you are trying to increase your personal power level, to meditate on the navel center, not the lower two.

My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.

If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them.