Hold on to your life and make it honest and brave.

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.

Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators.

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.

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.