“One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.”

“Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.”

“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... To find one real friend in a lifetime is a goo...”

“Though such authority and respect shouldn't be handed to all and sundry, have in caution's innermost room a confidant, a faithful mirror, whose correction you value when disillusionment is necessary.”

“The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.”

“We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.”

“I feel like every project I work on is a dream project, so long as I am learning.”

“Love, too, has to be learned.”

“Every pain is a lesson.”