Each one's destiny cannot be altered.

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

I am choosing to flow with the current of life rather than lying in a tide pool experiencing the same things again and again.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment.

I think to get society to act as a whole, people need inspiration.

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

Your trading needs to boil down to rules, money management, and that is it.

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.

Sometimes it's the things that are all around us that are hardest to see, especially love.