. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.

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.

The Christian life isn’t a playground but a battlefield.

The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!

I'm a complete romantic - it's why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process.

There are always pressures on decision-makers other than just what is right or what is wrong.

For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this unjust society and those who want to struggle for justice.

Sometimes it's just enough to keep your body moving. I get depressed if I don't move.

Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.