States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy.

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

I don't cook, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.

In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can't rate her highly enough.

We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.

Of course! The path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it.

I try to be thoughtful about spreading the wealth: young designers. Mixing things up is important to me.

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.