Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Science creates scientists...who creates godmen?

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. 

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. 

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

The innocent will triumph over the crafty on the day of judgement.