As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends.

How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?

The only gift is giving to the poor; All else is exchange.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

The biggest fool is he who has learned much, taught much, and is still discontented.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water, So men's height is just as great as their inner strength.

Real kindness seeks no return.

Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

Your friendship is like a kiss that makes my heart young again and wipes out the years of darkness and destruction sure does remind me of Joel 2:25

Hope is a most beautiful drug.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy

Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed