Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

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.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

That's what courage is you know: being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

Submit to the fate of your own free will.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.