Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong.
They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
. . . preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.
The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me.
Eating is aggressive by nature, and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system of taboos designed to ensure that violence remains out of the question.
If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.