There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

If one does not act, one cannot understand.

Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.