Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Forget the past.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Religion is a matter of the heart. Not physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid. 

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

It is about one's wisdom that came with the years of hardship.