The people follow the example of those above them.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

This is the thing that I was born to do.