"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."

"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."

"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."

"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"It is a enduring truth that the moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Character develops itself in the stream of life."