Fighting isn’t all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, andare satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. Aserious student is much...

Her only weapons were her tears.

It’s interesting, isn’t it? Being in the world.

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object—the joy of living—is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up. There are valleys,...

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

The world is always full of the sound of waves.The little fishes, abandoning themselves to the waves, dance and sing, and play, but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who...

She needed intimacy and a sense of partaking in, not just observing, real life.

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn’t do it with his chest stuck out.

Anywhere there is life, there are eyes. And things, too, speak to those who have ears to hear.

It’s no good to want to win still more when you have already won.