If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

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?

Anybody body can be a Church goer, but there is a difference of "GOD" being in them then they being in the WORLD.

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

Resting for me is fitness training.

Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.

Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself, all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

Most people perceive moderates as timid, middle-of-the-roaders, who can't take a stand.

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.