Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.  

译文：身体没有经历过饥饿和寒冷，就是上天对我最大的恩赐；学业没有进步，我用什么脸面面对苍天呢。赏析：人要懂得感恩知足，没有病痛折磨，没有挨冻受饿，就是人生最大的幸福。学业毫无进步，说明我们懈怠了，不读书，我们就不能获得先贤的思想精髓。

The happiest people are those who have discovered that happiness is a choice and not a result of circumstances.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.