My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

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.

Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes.I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.

Music lifted our spirit.

Love and loyalty run deeper than blood

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

It's highly competitive to be here. People don't come to California to drop out anymore. It's a very striving place.

Are you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.

No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift us, no obstacle is too great to overcome.

I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives.