"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."

"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world."

"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It's the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different."

"Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves."

"'That's the problem with tradition, it's always dated."

"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."

"I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?"

"Although we were sent into a failing world, we were not sent to fail."

"NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi."

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."