Become who you are.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
She does not show herself, and therefore is apparent. She does not affirm herself, and therefore is acknowledged. She does not boast and therefore has merit. She does not strive and therefore is successful. It is exactly because she does not contend, that nobody can contend with her.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.
Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.
Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.
Happiness is a state of activity.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.