The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places.

The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.

Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.

Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.