Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Nature is not human hearted.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

From caring comes courage.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Much effort, much prosperity.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Leave no stone unturned.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

There is the sky, which is all men's together.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

I have a great memory.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.