"A monkey trainer tells his monkeys that he will give them three nuts in the morning and four in the evening. The monkeys are outraged. So the trainer changes course. He offers the monkeys four in the …"

"How do I know that wanting to live is not a mistake? How do I know that hating death is not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?"

"You are not I. How do you know I don't know the happiness of fish?"

"The perfect man has no self; the spiritual man has no achievement; the true sage has no name."

"There is no greater sorrow than to have an eye for beauty, and no greater happiness than to be blind."