“If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. ”

“To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.”

“One joy dispels a hundred cares.”

“Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.”

“That corpse you planted last year in your garden,'Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?”

“Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.”

“Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.”