Literature is the art of finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.

The aim of education is not to make men carpenters, but to make carpenters men.

Real friends are hard to find.

If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate.

Hope is the beacon of the soul.

史记

The present is always changing, but the past is fixed.

The most powerful tool for change is knowledge, rigorously pursued and widely shared.