We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.