He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

When you kill a beast, say to him in your heart: ~By the same power that slays you, I too am slain, and I too shall be consumed. ~For the law that delivers you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand. ~Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven.

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]