When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Woman is the masterpiece.

The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.

Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.