When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

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?

Dismantle your wounds so you stop living your life by them.

Our body always tells us what it wants and needs—the question is whether we are listening.

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?

"I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.

Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul.

I have a real no-nonsense dad who taught me how to be resilient at a very young age.

I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.