Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

You can't just give up on something because it's hard.

家中的事情，尽可外传，就可了解君子的家法是如何的端正无瑕；亲近的人，都恭敬谨肃，就可了解君子对自身要求多么严格正派。

Not all of us can afford to be romantic.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.