The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.

To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.

Trust is earned by many deeds, and lost by only one.

Of the people, by the people, for the people.

The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!

In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

The whole world is one family.

To understand is difficult; to act is easy.

Only powerful people have liberty.

Fast forgiveness is a part of Christian culture I want to help change and transform. I ache for a journey of Jesus-like forgiveness. The kind demanding time and suffering in the process.

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.

As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.

If you're not a target, you're a failure.

Corruption can only prosper with a people's ignore-ance.

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards

You don't have to spend eight years of your life trying to get something done. You can get your answers very quickly, and there's something satisfying about that.

I was a bit of a tomboy, so I played softball and basketball. Then I was also a cheerleader. And I played flute too.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.