"None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself."

"There are no frontiers in this struggle to the death... A victory for any country against imperialism is our victory, just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all."

"It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."

"The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates."

"The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men"

"(On his family) It's an unusual story but then again, you show me a family and I'll show you an unusual story."

"Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought."

"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after."

"Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracya€|"

"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else."

"In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom."

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."