"Tell me the secret of my success, and I will tell you: My only strength is my persistence." — Bass
"The true way to maintain health all one's life is to extend the youth of the heart." — Collins
"Everywhere this wall of indifference falls, paving the way for innovators, reformers, and creators. This is the crucial duty of administrative bodies and leaders."
"Learning is labor; it is labor filled with thought." — Shenksi
"The purpose of education is to enable every individual to possess the will to do what they ought to do."
"Whether starting or stopping, if one is exposed to the sun once and frozen ten times, then even reading for a hundred years, I have not seen how it could succeed."
"Day after day, living calmly without much disturbance: sleeping, waking, eating. Moods are sometimes good, sometimes bad. Watching TV, falling in love, studying, going to school. When you look back casually at those ordinary days repeating themselves, you will find they have left behind something or other. Like those grains of sand, pure and warm." — Banana Yoshimoto
"Think deeply about the path of standing firm; read carefully books on refining one's skills." — Anonymous
"Learning has two taboos: arrogance and narrow-mindedness." — Anonymous
"The enemy of learning is one's own complacency. To seriously learn something, one must start with self-dissatisfaction. To oneself, one must be 'never tired of learning.'"
"One says they have read much, but upon reflecting on affairs, realize their insufficiency." — Wang Anshi (Song Dynasty)