The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

Never lose your child's heart.

The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency of our nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downward.