Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

A fool suffers, thinking, 'I have children! I have wealth!' One's self is not even one's own. How then are children? How then is wealth.