Within the child lies the fate of the future.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Live to the point of tears.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.