“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin.”

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.

One of the most difficult things is life is to continue running your hardest when you don’t know the end point.

Perfection comes from the disinterested performance of an action on a continuous basis.

We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters.

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

I just want to continue the way I am going.