Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom.

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.

Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.