One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.