1. “All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
2. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
3. “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
4. “If you want to be happy, be.”
5. “There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
6. “If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
7. “Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.”
8. “The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
9. “A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep’.”
10. “To be successful, you must first decide exactly what you want to accomplish. Then you must plant yourself firmly in the soil of patience, and wait for the seed to sprout.”
11. “Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy.”
12. “The two prime movers in the affairs of men are love and fear.”
13. “The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.”
14. “All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
15. “The best generals I have known were… stupid or absent-minded men.”
16. “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.”
17. “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
18. “We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
19. “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
20. “The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
21. “Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”