“Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.”

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 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.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.

The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.

I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.