My most interesting memory is of my first real dream. I was a caterpillar, wriggling around in the earth, just the way a caterpillar would. Following my caterpillar whims, completely unaware of anyone.

Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.

The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.

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

Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.

Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.

So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.