If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?

I am not an originator but a transmitter.

Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have.

When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession.

To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.

The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this.