When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.

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.

Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile - Kamada Nakasato, 102-y/o-female fr. Okinawa

All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.

I have found that it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.

I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

What is it with you and the Wizard of Oz references? Zombies and werewolves and vamps, oh my. Zombies and werewolves and...

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life's critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain.

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

The thunder of love is unassailable.