When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Take care with the end as you do with the beginning

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

The grandest virtue seems deficient.

People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.