In all things have no preferences.

After this I proceeded to the city of Barwan, in the road to which is a high mountain, covered with snow and exceedingly cold; they call it the Hindu Kush, that is Hindu-slayer, because most of the slaves brought thither from India die on account of the intenseness of the cold.

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity, who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity, who was able to move others.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

The Forbidden City had become a theater without an audience. So, why did the actors remain on the stage?

All the rest of the world uses the word "electricity." They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

I wonder who was spared. I wonder if New York, Paris, Moscow... are just like Kansas City now.

Eight and a half million New Yorkers will speak this new era into existence. It will be loud. It will be different. It will feel like the New York we love.
No matter how long you have called this city home, that love has shaped your life. I know that it has shaped mine.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

I sang with the simplicity of a sixteen-year-old girl whose mind is uncluttered by prejudices. I never had any, I'm not a conformist.

All the rest of the world uses the word "electricity." They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.

Who knows? But we can make it simple again.

Zen proverbs