"Always remember, the whole world acts like a screen, and you go on projecting yourself. Whatsoever you say about others, says more about you. It does not say anything about others; because how can you know others? — you don’t even know yourself."
"Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions."
"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it."
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."
"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."
"Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself."
"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."
"Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides."