Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it

If You want to be an educated person follow nobody, but learn from everybody

Every endured a hardship is a discipline in the spirit.

Don’t worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises.

I think he's jealous.

90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

I am the president now, the president of everybody.

You can only begin where you find yourself

I don’t drink to get drunk. That’s just not cute.

There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things.