Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

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.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.

I think we're heading into the Creative Age. We've passed through the Agricultural and then the Industrial and then the Information Age.

I get my inspiration from young stylish girls I see all over my travels.