It’s critical to know “who we are”. Only by knowing it can our company locate the anchor of value, which will provide our brothers and sisters continued incentives to work hard. Only by realizing “who we are” can JD complete its coming-of-age ceremony and likely achieve the transformation from “big” to “great”.

Do not scorn a weak cub; he may become a brutal tiger.

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

That bhikkhu who has cut off passion in its entirety, like one picking a lotus, both flower and stalk, leaves this shore and the far shore as a snake leaves its old worn-out skin.

The world today is experiencing a profound and rapid socio-cultural transformation. But the changes do not occur at a uniform pace, and the discrepancies in the change process have differentiated the various countries and regions of our planet.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but He does what is still more wonderful: He makes saints out of sinners.

I trapped my breath in the bellows of my throat, and a lamp blazed up inside, showing me who I really was. I crossed the darkness holding fast to that lamp.

I've burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.
Now I'll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.

Ashes to Ashes

Do not scorn a weak cub; he may become a brutal tiger.

We delight in the beauty of butterfly, rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty*

What happened to you, man? Did you get a head transplant?

I believe the old way of doing business is dying, and the sooner it's dead and buried the better off we all will be.

Wherever he was, he made it spring.

(After Franklin transforms and behaves like The Mask) Oh dear. This is just what he did at Nixon's funeral.

If you dwell with unaware people, you will be cold,
But if you dwell with aware ones, you will be a true man
Go, and build your hermit cell inside a furnace, like gold
If you go out of the furnace, you will be frozen solid