Those who die without being forgotten get longevity.

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.

When we are down there, if we are parted, come and find me again, " said Keedra.

It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.

When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.

If a man . . . would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.

I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project.

On my own account I certainly wouldn't have become the director of a couture house. I didn't have sufficient admiration for fashion as such to have done so.

Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context. It's a market.

I always look tired, but I'm not. I just look like I am.