If you think you re too small to make a difference you haven t spent a night with a mosquito

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in

Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you but never withdraw yourself from them

Regard Heaven as your father Earth as your Mother and all things as your Brothers and Sisters

Four things come not back: The spoken word The sped arrow The past life The neglected opportunity

If you understand things are just as they are If you do not understand things are just as they are

Things never go so well that one should have no fear and never so ill that one should have no hope

If you understand things are just as they are; if you do not understand things are just as they are

One who asks questions is a fool for 5 minutes one who does not ask questions remains a fool foreve

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon

A noble heart never forces itself forward Its words are as rare gems seldom displayed and of great value

It is better to sit down than to stand it is better to lie down than to sit but death is the best of all

A person embraces his wife; a female neighbour affects to look as if she herself were in the wife s place

Where there is great doubt there will be great awakening; small doubt small awakening no doubt no awakening

A great war leaves the country with three armies an army of cripples an army of mourners and an army of thieves