Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.

It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.

Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.

Who you are is always right.

We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.

If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward.

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

I didn't respond to that. I'm not scared of heights. I'm just scared of falling from heights.

I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much

When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.