"If you don't have a vision, you will perish."

"The day you cease to struggle, you cease to live."

"It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail."

"Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders."

"If my body dies, let my body die, but do not let my nation die."