As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, You can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, You will surely succeed.
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!
You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.
Most people only do what they are asked to do; success comes to those who do a little more.
I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.