When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness

Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.

Future generation is the most important thing.