“While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.”

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.

Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.

But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

Liberty is worth paying for.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.

There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.

People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love.

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

Service is a gift worth giving.

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God.