Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.

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.

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

The reward is found in the work.

To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

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.

Styles tend to not only separate men - because they have their own doctrines and then the doctrine became the gospel truth that you cannot change. But if you do not have a style, if you just say: Well, here I am as a human being, how can I express myself totally and completely? Now, that way you won't create a style, because style is a crystallization . That way, it's a process of continuing growth.