I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.