“Although the gods were in the distant skies,Pythagoras drew near them with his mind;what nature had denied to human sight,he saw with his intellect, his mental eye.When he, with reason and tenaciou...”

“I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”

“Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses”

“All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.”

“Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)”

“Worry is like a rocking-chair. It gives you something to do buy gets you nowhere.”

“But if that was going to happen, it was going to happen whether or not he worried about it.”

“Perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.”