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.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.