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.

Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.

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.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

There have been times of late when I have had to hold on to one text with all my might: "It is required in stewards that a man may be found faithful." Praise God, it does not say "sucessful.

I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.

Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings.

I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? When they're in a jam, a lot of pitchers...try to throw harder. Me, I try to locate better.

There are times for inner changes. Be ready for the choice!

Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.