Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.

For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.