Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.

Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

In every relationship, you can always see the ego of the other, but you cannot see your own – and the other one goes on seeing your ego.

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.

The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.

Life is a mystery, not a riddle. It has to be lived, not solved.

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

As it was universal truth no one can control the power of nature, it was useless to mourn when rain poured heavily when it was least needed.

The purpose of my work is not to educate people, rather it is to enrich human life with self-awareness.

Money wont make you happy but if you insist on being miserable, you may as well be rich...

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be different, don't we?

I expect that [trying to do the best] of my players today and of my kids. My wife says I shouldn't expect that of my children, but I don't think that's asking too much.

Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,To honied phrases set!Into the land of dreams I long to go.Bid me forget!