Establish your purpose, and make it the source of all things.

I do not mind hardship — only let it be hardship that matters.

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

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

-- Henrik Ibsen

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

-- Virginia Woolf

The beautiful is always strange.

-- Charles Baudelaire