“We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.”

Don’t try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.

Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes.

If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

Number rules the universe.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.