To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

Monastic incarceration is castration.

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.