Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

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?

No, you don't shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that's what you do. You paint a picture only by adding light to the things you see.

What will I do when you're gone?" said Alasdair, with a faltering voice.Bryeison placed a hand on his shoulder and said, with raging tranquility, "Do what is good and what is right.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.

Don't focus on the victory, focus on the task.

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully.

Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries.

Life isn't easy, life isn't fair, when you get your chance, make sure you take it.