Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

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.

When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.

You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.

The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.

I don't need you to slay my dragons. I can perfectly do it on my own.

In the bush, trust no one you don't know.

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

Divine Spirit has a way of doing exactly what is right for everyone concerned at the moment.

All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.

It's really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it's a representative and it's not really them.