Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Life becomes pleasurable when you are moving in the direction of your calling

Only a changed person can live according to the law.

To find beauty, look above the boundaries of conformity.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Treat me like a joke, watch me leave you like its funny

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are.

I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a cutting down of mountains; that is precisely how it felt to me.