The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

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?

There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite.

Redundancy is my favourite business strategy.

One can not impede scientific progress.

We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant.

The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

I was looking for something to make me happy, and once I realised what I actually had, then I found success.