If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.

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.

It is the height of irony to prejudge someone of prejudice.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

At 6 years old I knew there was no place for me.

The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.

Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.