"If you think in terms of a..." - Quote by Confucius

“At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.”

“The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”

“Which demands a lot of himself and some others, will be free from hatred.”

“Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.”

“The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.”

“The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul”

“To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.”

“I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.”

“It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.”