When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.

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.

I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.

I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.

There's all body types, but there's just one size.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only! Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap together like two mighty wings and lift him high.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.