Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

What can the will do when the heart commands?

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.