Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one's own strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live within the everyday mind... then the Great Way is right before your eyes.

There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.

As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.

When something out of the ordinary happens, it is ridiculous to say that it is a mystery or a portent of something to come... the mystery is created in (their) minds, and by waiting for disaster, it is from their very minds that it occurs.

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.