Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.

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.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Journalists love to show their compassion.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it.

Even though it's warm here in L.A., people still have to wear layers - at least until their plastic surgery heals.

The love reflected from another person has its source in your own heart.

After I was in an ambush, my uncles were happy - it was almost like a baptism.

I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.

Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.

I always find myself pulled back into the fantasy genre, and I can't really explain it.