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

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

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

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it

The more time I spent at the Finches', the more I realized what a waste of my life this school crap was. It was nothing but a holding tank for kids without bigger plans or ideas.

You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

A big cigar in a young face requires the best of both.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

People are so skillful in their ignorance!

Songs of worship arise from a life of worship.