One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Thomas Alva Edison

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Sparky Anderson

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently.

Thomas S. Monson

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

Benjamin Franklin

Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.Sir?It seems you've managed to retain this even though you are Authority.

Terry Pratchett

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.

Wm. Paul Young

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

Edvard Munch

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Luigi Pirandello

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Blaise Pascal