Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone

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

It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

How much you are able to learn is determined by how much you are involved, how much you participate, and how many actions you take.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board

A mother's love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life's fast and futile quest.

Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

I know dead. I've been there, done that and got the freakin' T-shirt.

The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion

True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time