A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

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

Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.