When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.

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.

Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame.

I seek plain truth I do and I have to I find strange oddities I am now sure I will reveal secrets.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.

Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

I always wanted to eat with a Negro,” Grandma said. Yeah, well I always wanted to eat with a boney- assed old white woman,” Lula said. “So I guess this works out good.

I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.

I'm not saying it's for everyone, but it's better to be alone than in a lousy relationship.

The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.

It's very different. You do so many things in this play. You can't just focus on acting or singing. You have to be good at both. I'm very glad I did this play.