"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."

"For fear, enforcing goodness, Must somewhere reign enthroned, And watch men’s ways, and teach them, Through self-inflicted sorrow, That sin is not condoned. What man, no longer nursing Fear at his hea…"

"The principle of inorganic equality was for them crucial. Men of the stamp of Jahn and Arndt had no notion that it was Equality that had first sounded the cry of "Vive la nation" in the September mass…"

"Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."

"The late Sifu Wong Shun Leung, of “Hong Kong” wing chun fame, in his seminars around the world over the years, liked to make a comparison with the modern combat sport of Western boxing, which he obser…"