"Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn."

"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."

"Like democracy, civilization has to be willed and practice. Otherwise, society is a war of all against all, powered by individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power."

"Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them."

"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."

"Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue)."

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."

"Great anger is more destructive than the sword"

"Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it."

"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim Wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, Obtained with labor, for mankind employed, And then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."

"Truth has beauty, power and necessity."

"Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother."