The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.