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

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.

If things far away don’t concern you, you’ll soon mourn things close at hand.

Buddha gives me the strength to bring my words to life and he gives me the strength to share my love of life.

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense.

We were the new people here. We weren’t part of their group. We had to prove ourselves.

Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, "I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.

A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

It's amazing and a miracle that any film gets made, you have so many moving parts.

Texas Democrats should be more concerned about what President Obama is doing to destroy the party, and the nation, than about what I am doing in going after him for that.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.