Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded.

Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated
from the cataract of accepted belief.

Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated
from the cataract of accepted belief.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't
know anything about.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't
know anything about.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization
of the end.

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization
of the end.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.