“Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.”

It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground.

Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft.