There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.
Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief.
Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.
Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
The 21st century will be the Asian century. This also means that Asians will be expected to provide greater leadership to solve global challenges, including environmental challenges. Hence, this multi-disciplinary programme from NUS could not be more timely. It meets a pressing need to educate, train and empower leading players in the public, private and civil society sectors in Singapore, Asia and the world.
[When people] say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else. ' And that somebody is invariably you.
I believe you make your day. You make your life.