Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.
The universe acknowledges the value of your tears; for when it rains, it is shedding its own.
Prayer is the best way to hug those who are far away.
Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts.
Beautiful gifts sometimes come adorned in ugly wrapping.
If you feed a bird, you don't have to force it to come to you.
Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.
Water has no mouth, but swallows many. Light has no hands, but touches many. Wind has no feet, but carries many. Darkness has no teeth, but devours many.
People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit.
The higher you rise, the smaller your enemies.
Turn your adversity into building blocks for the palace of your dreams.
When excellence comes in at the door, failure flies out the window.
Marry the one who laughs when you laugh, and you are clever; marry the one who cries when you cry, and you are intelligent, but marry the one who does both with you, and you are wise.
Love is the brightest star in the soul's sky.
Slay Goliath and the army behind him scatters.
Critics do not determine how high an eagle flies.
What you endured was a sign of what you would become.
You will never reach the stars without courage to lose sight of the ground.
A lion conquers more in one day than a sheep in a lifetime.
Make your wife happier, children wiser, yourself kinder, and you will make your life better.