What is well planted will not be uprooted.

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.

I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.

The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

We've been insufferable friends for years.

One of the greatest forms of success is to be able to help others accomplish their own success.

I think it's important to be happy before you can make anybody else happy.

It is really really important that you deal with Trump either by letter or by personal contact. Trying to deal with him on telephones or through the media is not a good idea.

No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out to seek ways and means of repeating it.

Music is the journey. You never arrive in music; the work is never over.