When people are unsettled, loyal ministers arise.

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.

This is [her] soul group.’What do you mean?’It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely.

When others sit, a #StaticJedi is found standing—even standing along, with a message not in hand but secure in heart!

Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).

I'm always prepared for the worst.

My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

While Safeco's turnaround is one of the greatest things I have ever participated in, the heart-wrenching decisions to let people go will stay with me forever.

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.