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The Namche Barwa will one day fall into the Tsangpo gorge and block the river, which will then turn aside and flow over the Doshong La.

- Kongbo Tibetan Prophecy

No trading port as large as Malacca is known, nor any where they deal in such fine and highly prized merchandise. Goods from all over the East are found here; goods from all over the West are sold here. It is at the end of the monsoons where you find what you want, and sometimes more than you are looking for.

- Tomé Pires

With God’s help, we will lift Shanghai up and up, ever up until it is just like Kansas City.

- Senator Kenneth Wherry's Prophecy

All the power of the United States will not stem the tides of Asia, but all the wisdom of which we are capable might conceivably make those tides a little more friendly to us than they are now.

- John Melby