The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
People think that the poor are not as wise as the rich, for if a man be wise, why is he poor?
The success of a man is through the soles of his feet, that of a woman is from her legs.
When a man says yes, his chi [personal god] says yes also.
Man is like a banana: when he leaves the bunch, he gets skinned.
If you open the eyes of a blind man he wants to go back to the darkness.
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man made perfect without trials.
A mans greatest shortcoming is that he neglects his own field and weeds that of others.
If a man becomes powerful even his chicken and his dog go to heaven.
