If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.