“Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.”

“Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.”

“If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.”

“When the student is ready the teacher will appear.”

“When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one.”

“So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.”

“Merrily, merrily shall I live now,Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.”

“All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.”