Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.