If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

To See What Is Right And Not Do It Is A Lack Of Courage.

What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others.

Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

Faith is never blind when others see it in our actions.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

The crowd is not us. It never is.

I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.

I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.

Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.

We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us.