When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.

He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.

At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.