Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.

May we never let the things we can't have or don't have or shouldn't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

Your direction is more important than your speed.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

One of the greatest accomplishments in this world would be that of lifting human hearts. Blessed are they who are kind and considerate of the feelings of other people.

What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!

I’ve come to understand that life is a constant letting go.

Believe that there are no limits. Manifest your best reality.

Envy the fire, for it is either going or not. Fires do not feel happy, sad, angry. They burn, or they do not burn.

A remarkably revealing portrait.

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

Why are some people highly principled and willing to do anything for their principles, while most of us are not? And I am willing to not only ask, but also answer the question.

My peers at the time: you know, young black kids from off the streets of Harlem, having these conversations with me in my small, dirty little studio up in Harlem.

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.