Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.

Use the mind to direct the chi and the chi to mobilise the body.

Tai Chi Chuan, the great ultimate, strengthens the weak, raises the sick, invigorates the debilitated, and encourages the timid

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

Faith removes fear from your mind by adding courage to your heart.

John Quincy Adams, denying his sons permission to come home for college holidays for under-performance: "I would feel nothing but sorrow and shame at your presence.

Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

Some of the best lessons come from a bad day and there's a few we can learn from today.

Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.

The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.

Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.

Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.