The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.

The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.

Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil...the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.

Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.