Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

A habit does not a monk make.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

First oppression is made into an excuse for terrorism, and then terrorism is made into an excuse for oppression.

At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial... like being thankful for my Louboutins.

All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.

Tantra involves radical change, a change in states of awareness.

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.

Master, Master Poet, Master of our silent desires, The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart, But it burns not with your song.

As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China’s reform.