The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.