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

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.

If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them suffer a little hunger and a little coldness.

A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

It’s better to be without a book than to believe a book entirely.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Want a thing long enough and you don’t.

The more acquaintances you have, the less you know them.

The person who is his own master cannot tolerate another boss.

Tenacity and adversity are old foes.

Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech.

A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things.

A man without a smiling face must not open shop.

All things change, and we change with them.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

Think about your own faults during the first half of the night, and the faults of others during the second half.