Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.

Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'

He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.

If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student.

Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire