Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it

He'd make her work so hard that a job as a cardboard-box presser at the margerine factory would seem like paradise.

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.

…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

True compassion comes from free will by drawing empathy from within.

In order to finish first, you first have to finish.

Promise you'll think of me every second?

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

I just try to be as honest and open as possible with all my music, whether it's live shows or the studio.