Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers

I’m not getting married until I’m forty. If ever.

I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.

A dog, for me, it’s not just getting a dog. I couldn’t leave him at home. I’m looking for a life partner and I’m not ready. I’m not emotionally mature enough.

Spider-Man’s probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there’s nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.

There’s a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I’ve always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.

I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up, hopefully they’ll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when the discover life isn’t always like High School Musical.

Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.

I’d love to take a year off and travel the world under the radar. I would love to do it really low key. I wouldn’t need to stay in fancy hotels or anything; I just want to explore – but I don’t know how I’d do it. Would I shave my head to try and go incognito? Ha ha! I’m not telling.

The fans make the person a star.

I don’t know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we’ve been talking, I think that’s really fun.

I connect with people on a daily basis.

My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it’s the only way you can test how far you can really go.

If I splurge on anything, it’s cologne. I love smelling good.

A woman called me interesting once, and it kind of blew my mind. She said, ‘You’re one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met,’ and I was like, ‘Wow.

High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

You don’t really know how beautiful a girl is, until you meet her, all her beauty is in her personality.

Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

Life should be fun not dumb.

Sometimes you grow out of love.

I believe in destiny. I believe destiny opens doors for you, but it’s up to you to walk through them.

When you’re young everything feels like the end of the world, but its not; its just the beginning.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.

Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awoke, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.

I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.

Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.

Do not seek fame. Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware of all that is and dwell in the infinite. Wander where there is no path. Be all that Heaven gave you, but act as though you have received nothing. Be empty, that is all.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.

Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.

Heaven, Earth, and I live together. All things and I comprise an inseparable oneness.

During our dreams, we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.

ou can’t discuss the ocean with a well frog—he’s limited by the space he lives in. You can’t discuss ice with a summer insect—he’s bound to a single season.

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless.

Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.

To have a human form is a joyful thing.

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening.

Emptiness is the fasting of the mind.

The sound of water says what I think.

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.

Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

The torch of doubt and chaos—this is what the sage steers by.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

When the heart is right, ‘for’ and ‘against’ are forgotten.

Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home.

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.

To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.

To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

A path is made by walking on it.

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.