Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg.

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

I refuse to hold the coats of this generation.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

Westward Ho!

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

Even when your dream that you set out comes true, it's not always perfect, and there isn't always the kiss at the end, and we all get to live happily ever after. That's not the reality of life.

I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.

I would never go to jail to protect animals or plants or wilderness. For me, it’s about the people.

Be as thankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form.