Promote talent and talent alone.

Before wine, one should sing — for how long is life? Like morning dew, so many days have passed.

Promote the talented regardless of background, and I shall employ them.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

-- Bruce Lee

Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers; head bowed, I willingly serve as a children's ox.

-- Lu Xun

Either explode in silence, or perish in silence.

-- Lu Xun

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

-- Oscar Wilde

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

-- Henrik Ibsen

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

-- Virginia Woolf