What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.