Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.

First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.

Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak!

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.