Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

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

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

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

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

Love is a strange commodity, because you can't import it if you don't also export it.

You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand.

Silence gives consent.

For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man's inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.

I have my ignorance to thank for the few things I know.

I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive.