"It is more shameful to distrust our..." - Quote by Confucius

“The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.”

“If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.”

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

“Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.”

“We must not lose our trust in the power of truth. Everything is always changing in the world.”

“The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.”

“A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.”

“The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by awards, and not by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet are not real, and cannot be depended upon in time of adversity.”

“I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased the all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank."”