Daily Signet

Consider T’ai Tsung, considered to be the founder along with his father, of the T’ang dynasty, one of China’s greatest ruling houses. Here was a man who instantly faced the dynamic possibilities, even with all of their difficulties, and moved to do what had to be done in the context of his place and his time, in a disintegrating and even dying empire, and, by so doing, gave birth to a great new dynasty—the Tang Dynasty. Under his reign, planning and action were one. His entire life is the story of a genius handling of the basics and the dynamics—building one and using the other to its greatest effect.                                          

William M. Boast