Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy tools, not chosen by thoughtful people, to be used only when there is no choice, and with a calm, still mind, without enjoyment. To enjoy using weapons is to enjoy killing people, and to enjoy killing people is to lose your share in the common good. It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented. It is right that a victor in war be received with funeral ceremonies.

Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.