Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
I can, therefore I am.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Know or listen to those who know.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.