I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

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.

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.

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

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.

I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.

I am longing for you in life and in deathAs the moon is longing for night and life is longing for breath

I know 'Hallelujah' isn't actually a Christmas song, but it has that cozy, haunting vibe that sounds like a winter's night and belongs by a fire.

If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

It's very important for me to be distinguished in my own home.

The Million Man March would never have been successful if it were not for the women who stood with us and helped to organize to make the March what it eventually became.

A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.