To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

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.

If you wish to compare, compare yourself with God's commandment.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

We need a lifetime ban on government officials lobbying for a foreign government.

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.

I like to win at everything I do.

Love makes saints or sinners out of men.

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.