If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.

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

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

When you meet someone you really like and connect with, I think that's very special, and not to be taken for granted.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can't put on weight though, no matter how much I eat.

A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.

I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.