Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat.

Pent up anger brews into hate, which subsequently becomes a juicy revenge.

Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.

For a better, happier, more stable and civilized future, each of us must develop a sincere, warm-hearted feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood.

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.

It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.

The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.