“If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, youll keep resentment far away.”

“A noble minded person is not an implement.”

“Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.”

“When the wind blows,the grass bends.”

“What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?”

“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs can...”

“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds be...”

“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”

“Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”