With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.

It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

If one is intelligent and applies himself well, what can he not accomplish? Even small bands of people, I have heard, have defeated whole armies.

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.

True education gives a child wings to fly in his imaginative blue sky.

Heaven itself has ordained the right.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role.

People will use you as long as you let them.

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.

I wanna be the best, simple and plain

I've always wanted to direct and as I grow and I get older and I get older I just want to let that evolve.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

We are pleased we haven't got one on order. It's too big an aircraft.