You have to be willing to put in the time, the effort, and the energy to be great.

我不是一个完美的人，但我是一个真实的人。

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.