Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.