I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to.

The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.

A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.

Like a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so the wise are not moved by praise or blame.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with dirty feet.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make them my friends?

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.