If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

If many years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Book of Changes and might thereby manage to avoid great mistakes.

If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them

Without literature my life would be miserable.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.