What do you do when a bear charges you? Don’t panic. You don’t have to outrun the bear, just the guy standing next to you.
To catch serpent, you must think like serpent.
The trick of mastering the current is to know which way it will turn next.[to Kemen]
The secret to life is knowing when to stop.
The iron that must bear the most heavy of burdens must also endure the most rigorous tempering!
Sometimes the seeds of a man’s destruction are also the seeds of his redemption.
Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.
One only wins a two-front war by getting out of your enemy’s way.
One must access calm as much as fire.
One hand washes the other and both hands wash the face.
One cannot satisfy thirst by drinking seawater.
Once a dog bites, no matter how loyal you remember him once being, no matter your fondness for him, he must be put down.