“Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.”

To fight against one’s desires is the greatest of all fights.

Stubbornness destroys good advice.

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can’t understand it.

The best revenge is to improve yourself.

A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence.

Silence is the garden of thought.

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.

Don’t engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.

The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.

How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth.

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.

Accept the apology even if it is not sincere.

Life wasn’t always easy to live but you are here despite it all.

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

It is either easy or impossible.

Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love.

Life gets easier when you love yourself harder.

Push one step further not because it’s easy, but because you can.

It is always easier, to tell the truth when we open our hearts before opening our mouth.

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.