Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Law is a system of rules, a union of primary rules of obligation and secondary rules of recognition, change, and adjudication.

中国学校的早自习

没有小故事，只有讲得不好的故事。

认为世界上只有一种真理，而自己正掌握着它，在我看来这是世界上所有邪恶最深的根源。

Introspection is the only method by which the mind can be directly observed.

解析：无念是不住念，无相是不住相，无住是随它去。如此，道便通流。三者是一。

Art should elevate the soul, not merely amuse the senses.

我们今天所做的事情会以并不总是显而易见的方式影响明天发生的事情。