Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain--as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.

Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.

If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.

Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living.