Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.

The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.

Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night. Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.

I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.

In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.