"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. You must look in the storm's …"

"Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. My captivity concentrated all my faculties on a single point. They had pr…"

"It is only a man who has lost everything that can appreciate a new beginning."

"I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest."

"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope."