If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

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?

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country

We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

I'm living my dream, everything fell into the right place for me.

I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.

If it is hard to imagine that 20% of losses on the stock market, you should never participate

Everybody shut up. Let us work.

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.