A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Do your best but do what is heartfelt and right.

Children are like clay in the hands of teachers. Like a sculptor we can chisel and carve their personalities with our behavior.

Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

It doesn't matter matter how many yards you ran for last year. You've got to do it again.

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.