Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

Father knew he might die that day, and he went anyway.

The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.

Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!

Nature draws no line between living and nonliving.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

Muichi Motsu: "Hold nothing": If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound by nothing, you live your life simply as it is

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

Number was the substance of all things.

An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.