The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.

A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.

Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.