He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.

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.

It made no sense to him, this idea that some people got God and some people didn't.

Life is about juggling obligations, Valerie. You need to study smarter, not harder.

I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.

I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the side hairdos are not metal no matter what distortion pedal they have for their guitars.

Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along.

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.

I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.

And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another man's foundation.

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.

If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments