"Find a teacher who is an integral..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.”

“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”

“The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.”

“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.”

“I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.”

“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.”

“Some teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me.”

“There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early in life, mainly by blacks like my most powerful mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson of Lynchburg, Virginia. They insisted that I be unfailingly polite on the court, unfalteringly calm and detached, so that whites could never accuse me of meanness. I learned well. I look at photographs of the skinny, frail, little black boy that I was in the early 1950s, and I see that I was my tennis racquet and my tennis racquet was me. It was my rod and my staff.”

“Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.”