Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

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

He who take cookie to bed have crummy night ahead.