When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

The heart that gives, gathers.

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say, “We did this ourselves.

If you want to govern the people, You must place yourself below them.If you want to lead people, You must learn how to follow them.

Thirty spokesShare one hub.Make the nothing therein appropriate, and you will have the use of the cart.

One gains by losing and loses by gaining.

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

Her skin smells of vintage books and pale moonlight, exotic things, forbidden loves and rainy nights.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.

I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.

That's all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel. Every time you go to Hymietown that's all they want to talk about.

Don't let your dreams escape / The future's ours to shape

My only interest in women's clothes is what's underneath them.

You told me it was a mistake to fight the scarred warriors. They were the survivors.