“Listening well is as powerful as talking well, and is also as essential to true conversation.”

Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Behave toward everyone as if receiving a guest.

A hundred no’s are less agonizing than one insincere yes.

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.

Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others away.

Men trip not on mountains they trip on molehills.

To know another is not to know the person’s face, but to know the person’s heart.

Two good talkers are not worth one good listener.

Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great.

Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyways.

He who thinks too much about every step he takes will always stay on one leg.

Only one who can swallow an insult is a man.

It is easy to open a store – the hard part is keeping it open.

A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.