The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

The noble-minded worry about their lack of ability, not about people's failure to recognize their ability.

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.

The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.

The faults of the superior man are like the eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his faults, and all men see them; he changes, and all men look up to him.