"Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers."

"The moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The darkest nights often reveal that the most profound truths are found in silence."

"He who inspires courage in a single soul has led a monumental campaign. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."

"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death."

"The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death."

"Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better."