“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 good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.

Loss is not as bad as wanting more.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.

If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.