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

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

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.

The nail that sticks out is hammered down.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

Whatever obstacles you face, remember you can get through anything if you want to badly enough.

We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?'

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

I'm a huge Rachel Maddow fan. There's not a bigger Rachel Maddow fan. I'm a Maddowphile. I'm a definite Maddowphile.

Trust me on this: no one is better off alone.