It's interesting, isn't it? Being in the world.

To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.

The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.

Great character is forged through hardships.

The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.

When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.