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

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Learning is a weightless treasure you can always carry easily.

A needle is not sharp at both ends.

Want a thing long enough and you don’t.

One beam, no matter how big, cannot support an entire house on its own.

Talk does not cook rice.

A clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.

A little impatience will spoil great plans.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones, and little ones into none at all.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

Ripe fruit falls by itself – but it doesn’t fall in your mouth.

Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.

Guessing is cheap, but guessing wrong can be expensive.

Genius can be recognized by its childish simplicity.

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