All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it.

Noble blood is an accident of fortune noble actions characterize the great.

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

I really love traveling, I love playing.

Architecture is crystallized music.

A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.

Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

People need space to air out their thoughts, to have a sense of themselves - unfettered by anything.