You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.