Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Enemies strike at weak points.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.