What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...’

By means of tranquility, the murky becomes clear. By means of movement, the still becomes alive. This is the natural Way.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – you’ll be criticized anyway.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

Like and dislike are the mind’s disease, certain to drown you in samsara’s sea.

The birds have vanished into the sky and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

The true Tao exists and yet does not exist. It does not exist and it does not not exist… Outside of the Tao, there are no things. And outside of things, there is no Tao.

Those who are skilled toil, and those who are clever worry. Meanwhile, those who do not possess such abilities seek nothing and yet eat their fill. They drift through life like unmoored boats.

what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform… Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

A dog starv’d at his master’s gate predicts the ruin of the State.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or devotion and which does not seek its own interest in anything.

A great man is always willing to be little.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.