We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground.

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.