Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.

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.

Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.

I wrenched open the windows. I stood while the cold air poured around my face like dark water, as if I was a rock and it was chiselling me into a new shape.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.

Things that don't get better, get worse.

I support our democracy. And sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

We need to talk to all the players in the Middle East, not because we agree with them, but because they play a role.

For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.

If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors.

When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God.