We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.

If Confucius wasn't born, the long night would have no bright lamp.

Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.

People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least.

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst Mens minds are also injured by them.

Every duty is a charge but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

Human nature is good just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good just as there is no water that does not flow downward.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.

The success stories in biotechnology are mainly due to the straightforward application of design thinking in both the business and science aspects of our lean startups.

I do know that the key to anything good is feeling relaxed and free. That's the main thing that you can offer yourself as an actor.

When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on.

As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we needed. My life was so fun and carefree that I didn't realize at all that we weren't rich - until I met someone rich. Still, I've never met a rich kid who grew up as happy as I did.

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

We are going to transform Britain's rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you've lived a good life.

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

I've been lucky enough to have flown some very interesting aircraft in the past, but SpaceShipTwo is far and away the most exciting of them all.

If you can sit all generations of a family down and entertain them and, at the same time, leave them talking about existential notions, then that's fantastic.

Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my father, Mike Taylor, a journalist on the 'Daily Mirror.' They had my brother and me pretty quickly and had split up by the time I was two. I don't really have any memories of them as a couple.

Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. It's so fashion-obsessed that people don't pay that much attention to the food.

We need peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. It is important to have political and security stability to build up our economic growth.

As far as being locked into one certain thing, that's not what I want to do. I just want the opportunity to go off and do something else, whether it's plays or musicals or whatever.

When your name is on the marquee, you either get the glory or you get the hits.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.