The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.

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?

i believe happiness do not transform man .rather happiness gives growth after achieving happiness passing through transformation

This would go a lot easier if you'd stop screaming in pain, ' Zoe told the muscular man lying beneath her.

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

I'm a big nerd. I geek out when I walk into Comic-Cons. This is like my heaven.

Some people do get nervous about cooking for me, others just get extremely irritated by my interfering.

I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.

Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.

We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

Not only is it a great concept and a great idea -- helping people -- it's good pizza too!

When I say that you are gods and goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite.