“To loan is to buy troubles.”

It is easy to forget a kindness, but one remembers unkindness.

Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work.

Regularity is the best medicine.

You do not stumble over a mountain, but you do over a stone.

It’s better to pick a fight with your in-laws than with your neighbors.

A mother is a school, preparing her is like preparing a good nation.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person.

Where the needle goes, the thread follows.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Any water in the desert will do.

The worst kind of poverty is to have many debts.

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision.

Don’t eat your bread on someone Else’s table.

Deceive me about the price but not about the goods.

Walking slowly, even the donkey will reach Lhasa.

Great minds discuss ideas, medium minds discuss events, and little minds discuss people.