"At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth. At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin."

-- Confucius

#Birthday Quotes #Heart Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain even when it is not documentary or complete.”
“When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine.”
“Clothes aren't going to change the world, the women who wear them will”
“Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.”
“In my kids school, the married family is an anomaly which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.”
“Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.”
“Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.”
“Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.”

Source : "Scott Pelley: In His Own Words" by Beth Knobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.

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