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.

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.

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

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions.

Even the worst comic is at least somewhat entertaining, if only in a pathological way, for five minutes.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest.

I have said all along that I would know when it would be time to step down, and now is that time.

If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake.