If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

One must be something to be able to do something.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.