Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.

A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.

We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.