Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed.

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.

You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.

I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

Study the past if you want to define the future.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.