Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.

Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness is not an arrival, it is the journey itself. Many people seek for happiness above the height of human beings, some below. Yet, happiness is exactly at the exact height of human beings.

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

I never really said all those things I said

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.