There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning ... There is something. There is nothing.

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

When an archer is shooting for nothing, he has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind or sees two targets - He is out of his mind! His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting- And the need to win drains him of power.

Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.

Man may rest in the eternal fitness; he may abide in the everlasting; and roam from the beginning to the end of all creation. He may bring his nature to a condition of ONE, he may nourish his strength; he may harmonise his virtue, and so put himself into partnership with God.

A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.