Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

Most things, except agriculture, can wait

Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.

In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use their language in the narrow sense of the mind. Something that goes even much further than that is not the appeal to logic and reason, but some kind of emotional awareness of the other people.

Time is not measured by the years that pass by, instead by the things you do, feel or accomplish.