You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.

If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.

To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.