Where is this heaven? You have not even the power to see one grain of sand here. Can you see this earth of ours? The earth appears to us to be stationary, and the sun seems to go round us; but if we could get away from our earth, and look down from the sun upon it, we should see that it is moving round the sun in a circle, and that the sun is standing still. So it is with our conceptions of heaven and hell; they are not real, but only human conceptions.

Only when the mind is tranquil, can there be creation.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be

So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The only way to move forward is to focus on the good and leave the rest behind.

The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience, but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.