The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.