Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.

Behind every smile there's teeth.

Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

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.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.