Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

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.

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.

Destiny is a right destination for every nation with a mission of destiny.

By just looking at the dark side of life, you cannot make it bright!

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

To achieve your dreams, work is required. Suffering is optional.

You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

It's a funny thing, when you talk to God, you're religious, but when he talks to you, you're a psychopath.

I owe my allegiance to the working class.

The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.

There's more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what.