Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

life weighs heavy upon my shoulders and patience starts wearing thin, it is divine hope and dreams which sustain me, pushing me forth against the wind.

The world has been given a treasure through which its inhabitants can attain greatness if they so desire.

Maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy.

A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

I feel like whatever you've done in your career, good or bad, it's nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.

It’s simple, really: Be great right now so that you can be great later on.