September 19

Westward, the mountain light dips out; a pond moon rises slowly in the east.

September 20

Trees, when they are lopped and cut, grow up again in a short time, but men, being once lost, cannot easily be recovered.

September 21

The promised land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.

September 22

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

September 23

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

September 24

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

September 25

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

September 27

Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.

September 28

Grander than the sea is the sky, grander than the sky is the conscience.

September 29

Nature never deceives us; it is always us who deceive ourselves.

September 30

One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

October 1

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

October 2

Young people have changed the course of history time and time again.

October 3

No matter what label is thrown your way, only you can define yourself.

October 4

Real strength doesn't come from pushing other people down. It's from lifting them up.

October 5

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

October 6

Don't moon away the Mid-Autumn Festival.

October 7

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

October 8

Though there is much to be concerned about, there is far, far more for which to be thankful.

October 9

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

October 10

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

October 11

One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is: ‘Whatever you do, don't be boring.

October 12

I have committed the worst sin of all that a man can commit. I have not been happy.

October 13

We are all like the bright moon; we still have our darker side.

October 14

We can never know things as they are in themselves, only as they appear to us.

October 15

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

October 16

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

October 17

I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things... It doesn't frighten me.

October 18

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

October 19

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.