“Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.”

“Your son may simultaneously feel that the male role is pressuring him to feel obligated to earn money someone else spends while he dies sooner.”

“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”

““Your son was in your own tradition.”
“Better, I hope,” said the old man. “There would be little sense to existence, did boys have no chance to be more than their fathers.””

“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.”

“Character is the one that carries whatever we become. If your wealth is bigger than your character, that wealth will be spending you, not you spending it.”

“Ah, son, may you prove luckier than your father, but in all else like him. Then you would not prove base.”

“Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.”

“Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.”

“My diagnosis," he said
"for better or worse,
is that your son is the result
of an old pharaoh's curse.”