We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right.

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

Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

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.

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.