“The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.”

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”

“Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.”

“There are in the world, two powers. The sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword.”

“China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.”

“Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.”

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.”