All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.