You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.

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.

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God.

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

The best thing about the past is that it's over. The best thing about the future is that it's yet to come. The best thing about the present is that it's here now.

Some risks are worth taking, even if it means losing a life.

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

There's no one that ever beat me playing cards, the only one that ever beat me was myself.