One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single word, the long and short of him will be known.'

One must not be negligent in learning. In the Lun Yu it says: "To study and not to think is darkness. To think without study is dangerous."

Good medicine is bitter to the mouth, but has an effect on the disease. Faithful words hurt one's ears, but have value for one's conduct.

The man who hunts a deer does not gaze at the mountains.

One's soldier should not abuse the enemy. 'Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

In the Wu Tzu it says: 'He who would save his life shall lose it, and he who would give up his life shall save it.'

When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.

When one is serving his master, he should exert himself.

The greatest moments in our lives occur when we surrender: birth, love, and death.

His hand cupped her cheek as he lowered his head to hers. Just before their lips touched, a light knock sounded on the door.

I recognized you instantly. All of our lives flashed through my mind in a split second. I felt a pull so strongly towards you that I almost couldn't stop it.

I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'

You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock.

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.