"How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to."

"Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later."

"There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful."

"He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero."

"We come and go just like ripples in a stream."

"Man can live far from God -- not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering."

"I'm not apt to be getting married in the near future and my lifestyle isn't apt to dramatically change as a result of any new relationship."

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."

"To err is human, but is feels divine."

"Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver."