"The Master said, 'What I want to avoid is fixed ideas, obstinacy, narrow-mindedness, and egoism.'"

"The superior man is catholic and not partisan. The mean man is partisan and not catholic."

"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."

"To be poor without murmuring is difficult; to be rich without being proud is easy."

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."