Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO NOT DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE DONE TO YOURSELF: so there will be no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family; your public life will arouse no ill-will nor your private life any resentment.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

Don't make to others what you don't want them to make to you.

Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.