Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

I regard all the world as my country, and I believe that I should be very welcome everywhere.

-- Peter Paul Rubens

China will stay on the path of peaceful development.

-- Hu Jintao

There can be no diplomacy without the power to defend oneself.

-- Shigeru Yoshida

I choose what I believe, and say nothing. For I am not as simple as I may seem.

-- Catherine of Aragon

I see, and say nothing.

-- Elizabeth I of England

When Paris catches cold, all Europe sneezes.

-- Klemens von Metternich