"It doesn't make a difference how gradually..." - Quote by Confucius

“Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.”

“If I were travelling with two partners, one virtuous and one dishonest, both would be useful as teachers. I would perceive what's good of the first one and I would imitate him whereas I would try to correct in me the defects I may see in the second one.”

“The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.”

“Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.”

“Stay in the game until the end of time.”

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

“If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.”

“Now we are in the second term of the government of a united nation and the government has done very well. One thing they have done, one thing people could not be blind to, was the achievement this government has made in giving human beings dignity, which they did not enjoy before. They now have dignity.”

“The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.”