“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”

“Whatever God’s dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.”

“But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.”

Better die ten years early than live ten years poor. Chinese

“I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.”

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

“A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won’t be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.”

“Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.”