Do not be easily affected by unfavourable views, or jealous of anyone more outstanding, or frequently yell that "I am devastated."

The best way out for diligence is that it doesn’t serve for a design, but for an affluent lifestyle. Industry fetches delight when it’s innocent, or incurs anxiety when congested with delusion.

The more seriously you regard something, the more it is really something. If we long stare at a drooping flag, it will slowly flutter; if we gaze long into a tree, among the leaves will appear a pair of eyes that meet our gaze; if we watch long at a tall building, the building will lean towards us.

There isn't a way that is not a zigzag, which only becomes straight by walking on it.

Laugh when there's no way to laugh, and cry when there's no point to cry, like this is a man who is mad or may well be who is wise.

Life is never responsible to show plenty of consideration for its character to live without a hitch. There is no way that life yields to a man, but the man gets with his life, with it he has to be in harmony along the vicissitudes however up or down.

We used to expect so much the torrents of fate, but at last finding life's most beautiful scenery is peace and composure in the heart; and expect so much the external recognition, only to know the world as a private thing, which is independent of the others.

A man cannot be without ambition; the only thing is that his ambition has not been ridiculously high.

There is not an absolute shortcut in doing anything. When you have taken a shortcut, it corresponds to deviation from all the other shortcuts.

When you have finished something, give it a period. It is the most advisable act to move on to things further.