Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.