If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage.

If you want to be strong, love yourself; if you want to be powerful, love others; if you want to be invincible, love everyone.

Love makes you strong when others are weak, brave when others are scared, hopeful when others are despairing and cheerful when others are sad.

It is the ant, not the lion, which the elephant fears.

There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars.

Ears for wisdom, hands for work, eyes for opportunities, and a mouth for thanks.

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

Learn what you can, teach what you know, live how you ought.

Life is a thorough university; pain and hardship are its distinguished professors.