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.

The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.

Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.