At the age of fifteen, I set my heart on learning;
at thirty, I was already well established;
at forty, I began to be immune from confusion;
at fifty, I could understand Heaven's will;
at sixty, I felt no surprise at any opinion;
and in my seventies, I have been able to do whatever I intend to without transgressing the rules. - Confucius
Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world - the fight for the Liberation of Mankind. - Nikolai Ostrovsky