“The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.”

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Faith is the force of life.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Love those you hate you.

Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

At the end of the day, we can’t always achieve everything that we dream of but you do have to enjoy life in the process.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

This is a new day of freedom, a new day of wholeness, a new day of increase.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I commit to listen, learn and take action.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won’t fail forever.