Quotes

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet… But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, / When two strong men s…

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.

できるなら毎日、少しでよいので歌を聴き、よい詩を読み、美しい絵を見て、そしてできれば、心あることばを少し交わしたいものです。

It is not enough to know, we must also apply; it is not enough to will, we must also do.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.

The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Summer grasses— all that remains of warriors’ dreams.

Departing spring— birds cry, and in the eyes of fish are tears.

The months and days are travelers through the ages, and the years that come and go are also wayfarers.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

But still I say, do your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Let the elderly, women, and children lie by the roadside without fear of harm.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

The greatest gift a doctor can give is not just skill, but presence—to be there when needed, without hesitation.

Dear Commander Nie, I feel really unwell today. Perhaps I have to bid farewell to you all... Thousands of heartfelt thanks to you and to all our dear comrades.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.

Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade… Let us say to the people not ‘How much have you got?’ but ‘How best can we serve you?’