“Nothing in the world is softer than water, yet nothing is better at overcoming the hard and strong.”

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowledge.

God does not need to be defended.

The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the lightest.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.