"If you would rule the world, you must first rule yourself."

"The root of the empire is in the state; the root of the state is in the family; the root of the family is in the person of its head."

"When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil. It exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme pov…"

"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart."

"The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they shall be sincere, nor of his actions that they shall be resolute; he simply speaks and acts as he finds it right."