If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

The heart that gives, gathers.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say, “We did this ourselves.

If you want to govern the people, You must place yourself below them.If you want to lead people, You must learn how to follow them.

Thirty spokesShare one hub.Make the nothing therein appropriate, and you will have the use of the cart.

One gains by losing and loses by gaining.

Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:name’s the motherof the ten thousand things.

The spirit partly lies in physical body, the rest of it is still waiting to be refitted.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent.

I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now.

I'll be there for you, I will care for you, I keep thinking you just don't know. Tryna run from that, say you're done wit that, on your face girl it just don't show.

Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.

I took some time off to enjoy my life, but figure skating is something I love and something I will continue doing for the rest of my life.

Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.