"All difficult things have their origin in..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.”

“Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.”

“Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel.”

“Take care with the end as you do with the beginning”

“The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.”

“Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.”

“Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.”

“We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.”

“Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.”