Poor food and water for dinner, a bent arm for a pillow – that is where joy resides. For me, wealth and renown without honor are nothing but drifting clouds.

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.

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay

I always say, what really makes a movie commercial is that it makes its money back.

Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier").

In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it.

Go forward with new zeal and determination, and through your example shine the light of the gospel in this troubled world.

The days and nights come apart. I feel them corroding at the seams.

There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.

A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.

and the bananas are overdone.

Pure truth no man has seen, nor ever shall know.