An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.

A hair divides what is false and true.

Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul."

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

Love is the very essence of life.