A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Don’t fear failure…in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you will never get it done

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Real living is living for others.

If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

The More we value things, the less we value ourselves

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I’ll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself — to be is to be related.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a...

Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else; it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire...

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love...

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary...

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things...

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

In Life There are No Limits, Only Plateaus.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you’re tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh...

I’m moving and not moving at all. I’m like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, “I am doing this,” but rather, an inner realization that “this...

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for a difficult on with the strength to endure it.

The doubters said, “Man can not fly,” The doers said, “Maybe, but we’ll try,” And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Not being tense but ready.Not thinking but not dreaming.Not being set but flexible.Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Satori – in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one’s own being – these are synonymous.

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.