富贵如住宿旅店，只有谨慎勤劳才可以久居；贫贱如破衣服，只有勤俭才能脱去贫穷的破衣。

做善事容易，做了善事而逃避好名声就难了；不触犯他人容易，触犯了他人心里不计较就难了。为人处世，遇到有人对我蛮横无理，就要像走在灌木草丛中一样，荆棘挂住了衣服，只能缓慢前行小心地拨开荆棘就是了，荆棘也不是存心阻人啊！这样一来便能做到心中不劳累，而化解仇怨。

想象是创造的开始。你想象你所渴望的，你意愿你所想象的，最终你创造你所意愿的。

People change and forget to tell each other.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.