If you imagine that once you have accomplished your ambitions you will have time to turn to the Way, you will discover that your ambitions never come to an end.

If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.

On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

Ambition never comes to an end.

You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

You are surrounded by endless possibilities with your potential being the sum total of your beliefs.

Make the right choicesFor the right reasonsand the right things will happen.

Life is nothing but an empty space filled with memories from beginning to end.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

Poverty is no sinne. [Poverty is no sin.]

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program.

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.