“Take care with the end as you do with the beginning.”

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.

The further one goes, the less one knows.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry.

To know that you do not know is the best.

Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

Avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.

A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.

Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.

I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.

Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.