Oppression can only survive through silence.

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

A smiling face is half the meal.

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.