The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't

Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it.

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

I want to avoid people, because there’s only one thing worse than being homeless, and that’s people who are not, knowing that you are.

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.

Everybody spies on everybody, I mean, that's just a fact.

I don't need proof, I have faith.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.