To examine oneself makes good use of sight.

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

Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.

I still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn't give me anything to eat

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

When we get emotionally and spiritually involved in helping a person who is in pain, a compassion enters our heart. It hurts, but the process lifts some of the pain from another.

I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?

The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.

We understand that we must make peace with nature - that our lives depend on it.