Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.

Learn to access the cosmic trust. Life will be easy.

Digest your experiences well and let this nourish the body of your life.

Be so busy competing with your old self until you start to see no reason to ever compete with others.

Science and art belong to the whole world and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.