A noble minded person is not an implement.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

When the wind blows, the grass bends.

The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.

One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things – is that not a sage indeed?

I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them.

Am I a man of great wisdom? Hardly! Even when a simple person brings me a question, my mind goes utterly blank, I just thrash it out until I’ve exhausted every possibility.

You don’t stop planting corn because weeds are going to grow beside it.

Rethink success: Few people will ever discover that the most important business they will ever run.. is their life!

Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns

When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.

I use the traditional Moyse scale books slightly modified.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is in a gallery.

Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed

the days of our lives vanish utterly, more insubstantial than if they had been invented. Fiction can seem more enduring than reality.

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.