How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.

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.

To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

I admire my father greatly.

I think part of picking where you live in New York is accepting who you are. Really looking at yourself and going, 'Yeah, I'm not cool enough for the West Village.'

It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

I'm a fan of Talking Heads going way back.

Do not be ungrateful to animals.

People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.

Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.

The unrecognized genius of our time.