"As the water shapes itself to the..." - Quote by Confucius

“The whole end of speech is to be understood.”

“Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.”

“The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.”

“Change means traveling in uncharted waters and this causes our securities to rise.”

“In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.”

“I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.”

“When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.”

“The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.”

“You need to learn patience, you grasshopper”