“Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting peopleoff. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around.Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension...”

“Watch birth and death:The lotus has alreadyOpened its flower.”

“As I see it, youre always unsteady on your legs. You cant find your courage. Youll go to any length to avoid what displeases you, and you gallop after whatever you want. And why is that? There is n...”

“I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I cant settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world wont let me. So what choice do I have but t...”

“Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but its taboo in social intercourse.”

“People may make fun of me because Im wearing something odd, but its still good to be alive.”

“It is one of my decided opinions that married people ought to have no one, be the tie ever so close and dear, living permanently with them, to break the sacred duality no, let me say the unity of ...”

“Always being there was the essential secret for a wife.”

“It’s so unrewarding, being a woman.”

“War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults.”

“War is the echo that never dies. No society strives for war, they are always tricked into it.”

“How can our words ever truly be our own? Since we started growing all we've been taught is to care how we represent our persona and how we should communicate appropriately and how we portrait ourse...”