The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
I've learned that you can't control everything, and sometimes you just have to let go.
想治理国家，首先要先去治民。治民要先正己，做好治家的工作，把自家子弟教育好了，自己就会以身作则；只有做到先正自己，才能在治民方面起到带头作用。只有先做好自己，才能为别人带好头和榜样；只有先身体力行才能有好作用榜样示范作用。这才是真正有意义的治理国家的好方法。只有先立好自己的身才能对社会起到好的表率作用。
The best fiction makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
《三民主义·民族主义·第六讲》（1924年3月2日）