Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again.

They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.