Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.

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

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

I think that the way we begin our day is really the way we live our day and the way we live our lives; and that not enough of us are really aware of it.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

It is better to be on hand with ten men than absent with ten thousand.

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

Charlie and I have a number of filters that things have to get through before we'll think about them.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.