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

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These are your greatest treasures.

Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.