Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop.

I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

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

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.

If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?