What is considered blindness of fate is actually one's own myopia.
Some people are kind only because they dare not be otherwise.
Those who can, act, and those who cannot, and suffer for it, write.
The saddest thing is that the only thing that can be done for eight hours a day is work.
The past never dies, it is not even past.
Don't bother trying to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors, try to be better than yourself.
You cannot swim to new horizons if you do not have the courage to lose sight of the coast.
We must be free not because we claim freedom but because we practice it.