Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy

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

Sometimes we have to reach rock bottom before we're willing to rise up and overcome our trials.

Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.

All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.

Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.

I talk to my parents everyday and every move that I make, every endorsement that I do, every film that I do and my everyday activities are all discussed with them.

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

There definitely is exposure in reality shows, but the exposure will basically get you more reality shows.

I think I'm a better director than I ever was an actor. I'd love to go back to acting, but nobody seems to want me.

The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a new generation that has not grown up with him.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.