Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

When three walk together, one is surely my teacher. I follow what is good and correct what is not.

Knowing it is less than loving it; loving it is less than delighting in it.

I transmit but do not create; I trust in and love the ancients.

Character is destiny.

-- Heraclitus

If you are born poor it's not your mistake, but if you die poor it's your mistake.

-- Bill Gates

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

-- Howard Schultz

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

-- Oprah Winfrey