“An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.”

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

To establish a heart for Heaven and Earth, to secure a destiny for the people, to carry on the lost teachings of the sages, to open peace for all generations to come.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.

There is no greater mystery than this: being reality ourselves, we seek to gain reality.

Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowledge.

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.