If I Understand Change, I Shall Make

The Perfecting Of One's Self Is The Fundamental Base Of All Progress And All Moral Development.

When We Have Intelligence Resulting From Sincerity, This Condition Is To Be Ascribed To Nature; When We Have Sincerity Resulting From Intelligence, This Condition Is To Be Ascribed To Instruction. But Given The Sincerity, And There Shall Be The Intelligence; Given The Intelligence, And There Shall Be The Sincerity.

On Matters Beyond His Ken A Gentleman Speaks With Caution. If Names Are Not Right, Words Are Misused. When Words Are Misused, Affairs Go Wrong. When Affairs Go Wrong, Courtesy And Music Droop, Law And Justice Fail. And When Law And Justice Fail Them, A People Can Move Neither Hand Nor Foot. So A Gentleman Must Be Ready To Put Names In Speech, To Put Words Into Deeds. A Gentleman Is Nowise Careless Of Words.

I Was Complaining That I Had No Shoes Till I Met A Man Who Had No Feet.

Happiness Is Not At The Top Of The Mountain, But In How To Climb.