“A cup of kindness is better than a whole bottle of mercy can be.”

“I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.”

“Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.”

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty
that can modulate their isolation
into a harmony with the whole.”

“The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.”

“Never be ashamed. Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle. How will I know which is which? By the taste. You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.”

“Cézanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle — a particular bottle — out of a cylinder.”

“It's better to be kind than to be right.”

“The right kind of leisure is better than the wrong kind of work.”