One gains by losing and loses by gaining.

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

The heart that gives, gathers.

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say, “We did this ourselves.

If you want to govern the people, You must place yourself below them.If you want to lead people, You must learn how to follow them.

Thirty spokesShare one hub.Make the nothing therein appropriate, and you will have the use of the cart.

Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:name’s the motherof the ten thousand things.

Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

Don’t worry. I won’t send you off without warning. Just stand there and be awed by my beauty. It’s the safest mode around me. (Savitar)

I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.

Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.