If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.
Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.