We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

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

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'