The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led towards the right ideals and aspirations, we may see the appearance of a great nation.

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.

You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

In language clarity is everything.