“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in — what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.