"Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."

"Ignorance is the mother of all evils."

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words: Wait and hope."

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."