Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Honor, Confucius

為政以德 譬如北辰居其所而眾星共之。

- 孔子

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

- Confucius (孔子)

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Science, Albert Einstein


My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe.

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Friday, October 26, 2012

Star, Marilyn Monroe

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

- Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Inspiration, Carl Schurz

Ideal are like the stars; we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

- Carl Schurz (1829-1906)

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Beauty, Ralph Waldo Emerson


If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Nature and Selected Essays