Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it

Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.

You don’t need much to give. Give what you have.

What differentiates humans from all other creatures is the deep and unquenching desire to be appreciated.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

I became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was and realized there were others like me.

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were overcome not so much by pain but by absurdity.