Unless you enter the tiger's den you cannot take the cubs.

Fall seven times, Stand up eight

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Each moment only once

What you don't sweat out when you're young will turn into tears when you're old.

He is poor who does not feel content.

There are formalities between the closest of friends.

He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other.

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.

The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned.

I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.

He seemed to think that spanking solved problems instead of taking the time to talk about them.

When there is abundance of fish, we need help to pull the nets.

What are you?" I whispered. He shrugged again. "Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.

Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name

Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...

In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.

I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.

The cup that went down under has now come up again.

Patience means knowing it will happen . . . and giving it time to happen.