All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.

Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

I have a dream that I will fulfill. And nothing else will distract me from my path.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.

Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Such beautiful strength lives in uncompromising humility.

He liked the grand size of things in the woods, the feeling of being lost and far away, and the sense he had that with so many trees as wardens, no danger could find him.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.

It felt wrong to be so proud of something that I had absolutely nothing to do with, but I couldn't help myself.

You don't want the truth. Truth is boring.

The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14).

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.