It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.

In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas.

Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.

He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.

The way is the beginning of all beings and the measure of right and wrong.

The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.

When you're in love, the sun never stops shining.

We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.

All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no salvation for us on that road.

It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

The average person tells a few white lies.