They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural.

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?

Love wins when reflections win over reflexes.

If we want to survive this economic collapse, new mandatory school subjects should be eCommerce, Chinese, spirituality and aesthetics.

I believe that things we cry over because they are lost, can never be compared to things we will receive because of our loses. God is a great restorer!

Everyone can only succeed with their own Dharma.

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.

The inferiority of women is man-made.

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

I grew up going to the store, seeing the products [of L'Oréal ], seeing the commercials and the ambassadors. I never in a million years thought I'd be associated with them.

I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.