Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.