“Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.”

Who then will dare to say I’m weak or timid? No, they’ll say I’m loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate.

Mortal fate is hard. You’d best get used to it.

Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves.

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

I can get caught in many things but there is one thing I will never get caught in, and that is acting – because I don’t act. On screen I am like I am in real life.

The end of education is character.

You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.

A lot of people don’t know that I love to love. To have a different kind of mask on me where people feel like I’m not a loving individual. I just love to love, I love everything and everybody, I’m about peace that’s my spirit.

If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.

I’m a very stimulated person.

To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.