“Don’t forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky.”

You can’t win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!

For someone who doesn’t have the key, the door becomes a wall; for someone who has the key, there is no door!

In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts!

Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!

You are not superior to others and others are not superior to you. You are only different than others and others are only different than you!

It would be nice to find a ‘planet of trees and birds’ in the space; only trees and birds, millions of different trees and millions of different birds!

Feathers are light; but when they come together, they become heavy!

Every heart has a door; knock it gently! If the door is not opened, leave gently!

Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds… Lonely trees are not lonely!

If you feel stronger and good when the weather is sunny and weaker and bad when the weather is cloudy, then it means your willpower is not powerful yet!

The adjective ‘decent’ and the noun ‘government’ have seldom come together in the human history!

With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel!

Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you’ve got nothing left!

No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!

In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!

If somebody praises you; change the topic!

I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

My mother had very humble beginnings – to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning – ‘no foolishness,’ as he would call it.

We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time