“The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards.”

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

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

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Be water, my friend.

Stories are the secret reservoirs of values.