You have to learn to walk, before you run.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Kongzi, “The Confucian Analects”

You must seize every golden opportunity. / Strike while the iron is hot. / When you find a rare good buy, seize upon it for a future sale at a much higher price

Lü Buwei, “Lüshi Chunqiu”

Therefore one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful. Seizing the enemy without fighting is the most skillful.

Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”

Nurture passes nature.

Wine in, truth out.

Propriety suggests reciprocity. It is not propriety not to give out but to receive, or vice versa

“Summary of the Rules of Property in The Book of Rites”

What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.

Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”

I’ve stayed in my marriage this long because I never disagree with my wife. Whatever she says is the right choice.

Steven Spielberg

In the Palace of Eternal Youth,
On the July 7th moon,
Alone they had whispered,
To each other at midnight:
“In heaven we shall be birds,
Flying side by side.
On earth flowering sprigs,
On the same branch!”