"Rate the task above the prize; will..." - Quote by Confucius

“All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.”

“With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.”

“Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.”

“From myself I am copper, through you, friend, I am gold. From myself I’m a stone, but through you, I am a gem!”

“Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.”

“Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don’t have time to criticize others.”

“Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.”

“The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.”

“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.”