If you are scared you die every day. If you are not scared, you die only once.

He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high dies only once.

The important thing is not establishing if you are afraid or not but it's to be able to live with your own fear without being influenced by it. Otherwise it's not courage anymore, but recklessness.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

It’s just another stop on the curvy roadthe final encounterfor the man who has liveddeath is the answer.

The key is putting into practice what God has taught you through His Word.

Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.

In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens.

A cat that jumps on a hot stove will never jump on a hot stove again. Neither will it jump on a cold stove.

Success has many fathers, failure many sons.

Great men should drink with harness on their throats.

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.