If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high... Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

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

-- Bruce Lee

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

-- Jackie Robinson

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

Courage is grace under pressure.

-- Ernest Hemingway

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

-- George Orwell