A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.

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.

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

Parents have no clue how many things they never teach their children. Their children are simply born with those things.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.

Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

A lot of times, Im singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.

When pride thaws, look for floods.

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.