“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.”

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free, into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.