With the softest hand, you can shape the hardest rocks!

Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous; patience is only for the immortals!

The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!

A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!

When the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't be serious!

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!

All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away!