When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do not say this. They say, "We have done it all ourselves."

Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

Great, it passes on (in constant flow).

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.