Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.

The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.

When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.

You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.

To burn always with this hard gemlike flame to maintain this ecstasy is success in life.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

I rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate. You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous.

When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

I knew how to die. It was the living that scared me.

My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.

nothing is impossible