To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.

Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.

Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.