The secret of getting things done is to act!

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.

In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people