Searching for precious goods leads astray.

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.

Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn’t ‘whining, ’ it is the pursuit of passionately held beliefs.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

We shall drink to our partnership. Do you like gin? It is my only weakness.

I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it.

For any given doctrine that one wants to believe, there is never a shortage of arguments by which to support it.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.

Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know.