Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.

Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!

You are too young, I think, to understand yet the nature of desire. You know what it is to want, perhaps even to yearn, but true desire is something else entirely.

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

The 'you' who you think you are does not exist.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.