Cảo thơm lần giở trước đèn,
Phong tình có lục còn truyền sử xanh.

[http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-lin-yutang/ Article in The Idler Magazine] - broken link, see: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090718214232/http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-lin-yutang Internet Archive copy] instead

[https://web.archive.org/web/20051123233012/http://texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog5/Saltlick/hsinhsinming.htm The Hsin Hsin Ming (Verses on the Faith Mind) translated by Robert B. Clarke]

I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.

Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.

Dear Angry Older People, over 21-ish, anyone who considers themselves an adult, still bitter: Next time you're wondering what wrong with kids today, you might wanna check the examples you've been giving us to work with.

Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?

Gad Elmaleh - Xavier

Theophrastus of Eresus... wrote a book On Winds and on Weather Signs, but like most other Greek philosophers, he was hardly the man to adopt patient and exact observation in place of dogmatic assertion and the teaching of authority.

That's exactly what you are! You're just a kid who has no... idea... WHAT HE'S DOING!!!

Trăng thề còn đó trơ trơ,
Dám xa xôi mặt mà thưa thớt lòng.

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.

Bishop Doctor Benyamin Bria, who was active in human and social activities, has built togetherness and tolerance regardless of religious, tribal and group differences. May we follow his example.

Một mình lưỡng lự canh chầy,
Đường xa nghĩ nỗi sau này mà kinh.

You know the story of 'Alice in Wonderland'. The red queen has to run faster and faster to keep still where she is. That is exactly what you are all doing. running faster and faster. But you are not moving anywhere.

Well, [Lorca had] a gift for gab. For example, he makes striking metaphors, but I think he makes striking metaphors for him, because I think that his world was mostly verbal. I think that he was fond of playing words against each other, the contrast of words, but I wonder if he knew what he was doing.