“A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.”

“The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.”

“Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.”

“There are people dying from famine on the roads, and you do not issue the stores of your granaries for them. When people die, you say, 'it is not owing to me, it is owing to the year.' In what does...”

“The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.”

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”