We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
True patience is grounded in wisdom and compassion.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Manifest Plainness, Embrace Simplicity, Reduce Selfishness, Have few Desires.
It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.