You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?

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.

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

You can’t lead people if you can’t lead yourself. Self-leadership qualities qualifies you to become a co-operate leader.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage yours.

I guess Pumas are in their 30s. Cougars in their 40s Jaguars are 50s, and Sabretooths go into the 60s, right?

I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage of my life.

Life is a school and problems are the curriculum.

When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.