“Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.”

“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”

“Without respect, love cannot go far or rise high: it is an angel with but one wing.”

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”

“One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.”

“For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.”

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”