United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon writes down famous lines of Confucianism during an interview with Xinhua at the UN headquarters in New York on June 26, 2008. [Xinhua]"I have really been trying to learn the wisdom lessons from the Analects of Confucius," he said. "These kinds of teachings have been a great source of wisdom and experience, and have been a guiding force in my public service as well as private life."