Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.

The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.

Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.

An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity.

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.