Why should young people look for guides who hang out gided placards to advertise themselves? They would do better to look for friends, unite with them, and advance together towards some quarter where it seems possible to survive.

Hope is like a path in the countryside.

Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.

I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert.

I have a dream that I will fulfill. And nothing else will distract me from my path.

But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.

I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.