If you are not a better person tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for a tomorrow?

Knowledge that is paid for will be longer remembered.

When a man is able to take abuse with a smile, he is worthy to become a leader.

A strict master will not have understanding sons.

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another, who absolutely opposes you, and you presume that there is no chance for peace between you two. On the same token when you see two individuals who are exactly two opposites, never say it would be impossible for them to reconcile. On the contrary, and this is the perfection of peace to make it between two opposites.

Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.