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.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

Rotten wood cannot be carved.

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.

Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.