Excerpts from chapters 1-3 of How Steel is Tempered are as follows:

1. When you feel sad and miserable, you'd better learn something. Learning will make you invincible forever.

2. Happiness lies in creating a new life, and in remoulding and re-educating the man who has become the master of the country and the great wisdom of the socialist era.

3. The cause and struggle of * * * can make people have the power to endure everything.

4. Always feel that the land of the motherland is firmly under your feet, live with the collective, and remember that it is the collective that has educated you. If you leave the collective one day, it will be the beginning of the end.

5. Courage comes from struggle, and courage is cultivated through tenacious resistance to difficulties every day. The motto of our youth is to be brave, tenacious and firm, that is, to remove all obstacles.