Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.

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.

I tried.Can't do it.Brain's empty.

New converts displayed a most un-Roman concern for the sick man.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

There are three proven rules for good teeth: brush after every meal; see your dentist twice a year; and mind your own business.

Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.

[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.