“If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.”

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

The Way to do is to be.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.

Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.”

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.

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.

In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I’ve no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I’m willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.