If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.

Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.

It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.

Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.

Who you are is always right.

We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.

This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.

We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul.

No matter the amount of money a person may have, a dishonest way of life will cost him everything he has

We're all made the same but then born to change. Which then don't make us the same.

You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.

We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.

We don't need to talk. We need to love.

I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” he said, “and I am sure he will perform it admirably.

Every day, put a little makeup on, put on some nice underwear, and you'll keep your husband.

Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!