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

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.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

Love is life, if it is not death.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.