“A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.”

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Behind every smile there’s teeth.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.

Roads were made for journeys not destinations

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.