It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.

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.

I wanted to see her sad. Taste her tears. I wanted to know what she sounded like when she cried. In pain, in pleasure, in both.

Examine the personality of the mother who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being.

I don't want ever to be a president who is comfortable and at ease with killing people.

When they built you brother they broke the mold.

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

It's amazing what you can hide just by putting on a smile.

One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.

A person is as young as their dreams and as old as their cynicism.