Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.