Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.

How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?

The only gift is giving to the poor; All else is exchange.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

The biggest fool is he who has learned much, taught much, and is still discontented.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water, So men's height is just as great as their inner strength.

Real kindness seeks no return.

Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

How dare you open a spaceman's helmet on an uncharted planet? My eyeballs could've been sucked from their sockets!

Those who are growing great are always asking “why?” If they fail or lose, they ask “why?” If they succeed or win too, they ask “why?

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove.

Dogsled-riding is a sport that is relaxing as well as fragrant.

Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light

What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.

Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution.