Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.

Theodore Roosevelt

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Thomas Carlyle

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

Terry Pratchett

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Confucius

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.

C.S. Lewis

Every word was once a poem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

Bill Bradley

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

John Buchan

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let social busy-bodies and professional public morals experts in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.

Samuel Gompers