I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise