A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!
When everything is going greatly, you can never see the real faces of the people! Wait for the hard times to see the true face!
If you are an executioner, don't expect to have a friend closer than a gallows!
In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.
We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything!
The only acceptable imperialism is the Imperialism of the Forest! Let the whole world are invaded by the tree-soldiers!
Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.
There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!
You may like walking barefoot, but keep your shoes with you; you may need it when the ground changes!
It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.
Sometimes life puts too big weights on little shoulders and the reply of little shoulders to this injustice is remarkable: To carry the burden with courage and dignity!
My best inorganic friend is science!
A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!
Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!
Literature is a microscope; it shows us the unseen!
We can't see and we can't reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge.
Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!
When you walk alone, when everybody is against you, if you are sure with your ideas, walk strongly and proudly as if there is an army of angels by your side!
With whomever you feel yourself as if you are with your very self, he or she is surely your true Valentine!
Only the hardest roads make us really feel that we are alive! Leave the easy roads!
In an ignorant country, everything will try to drag you down! Stay firm, aim at the stars, keep going up and drag up the people who are trying to drag you down!
In fall, God is remembered; in rise, forgotten.
In old age, mirror is not a friend!
In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude!
In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs.
