Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

Rumi

No one knows a son better than the father.

Chinese Proverb

The axe never remembers. The tree never forgets.

Paulo Coelho

Wise men may not be learned; learned men may not be wise.

Chinese Proverb

One can do without people but one has need of a friend.

Chinese Proverb

Hard work never killed a man.

Scottish proverb