Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. 

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Every time you give, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

Religion and slavery are incompatible.