If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth. Someone once told me, "Even when building the imperial palace, they always leave one place unfinished." In both Buddhist and Confucian writings of the philosophers of former times, there are also many missing chapters.

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

Ambition never comes to an end.

Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.