Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.

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've hated some of them too. Most of them sometimes. And they do think differently, but that's a good thing, isn't it? A hand isn't a f-foot, but I need them both to hunt.

Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will.

I was not a very good football player when I started out.

He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

You all would be really shocked, if you were dropped back down into when I went to college, by the narrowness of the opinions you could get just by reading newspapers and magazines and watching TV.