The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.