The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.

The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?

Shade and light are different in every valley.

All the birds have flown up and gone; A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other - Only the mountain and I.

You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom, The water flows.

I'm not superstitious.

I bow in reverence to the white cloud.

A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like a pearl; the moon like a bow.

To find pleasure in life, make the most of the spring.

I didn't set fire to the building.""No, but you did pull it into the river.""That put the fire out!

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

God has the potential of touching people's hearts and changing them.

Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting.

I’ll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.

Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon

... accepting and feeling sympathy and love is not so healing as giving it.

The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.