God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

she is born in the breath of a cloud

Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

I hope all of you will inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of China's religious circle in patriotism and religious piety and in upholding peace.

Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware.

The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out.

Once you freeze all the way through to your soul, you will never feel warm again.

I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.