“When your concentration reaches it's highest point of being, then, and only then can there be a transformation.”

“Your life is given to you by your parents. If you don't want to live, you have to ask them first.”

“You want to know my name? --a hill, a tree. An empty drifting boat.”

“The emperor beckons me; he wants me to marry his daughter.The road to the capital is long and distant; I don't want her.”

“How I hate this silk dressthat conceals a poet.Written in the mid 9th century by a brave woman poet. Even then, even now, what is seen externally does not always define our journey.”

“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”

“Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.”