The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.

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.

Geography is destiny.

What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves.

I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.

Hillary Clinton doesn't have the energy to do anything.

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

I knew when they [with Adolf Hitler] had been fighting because Eva [Braun] always reacted the same way. She would lock herself in her bedroom and cry and cry, sometimes for a long time.

You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair.

When you talk about presidents, loyalty is a great thing until it becomes a bad thing. Witness once again Watergate.