“I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.”

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become.

Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.

The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.

Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

Poverty is the worst form of death.

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

The word of God is the medicine of the heart.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn’t believe it.

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance.

Japan always keeps our door for communication open.

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Every day, stand guard at the door of your mind.

When a door closes you have two choices: give up, or keep going.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don’t eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.