Hope

"Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue."

"... True classical dropouts in society are those who avoid difficult challenges and cling to the first opportunity that comes their way. They never test their talents. These latent talents will only help to produce the next cycle of dropouts..."

"... Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,"

"... No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man’s world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?"

"Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves."

"... There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest..."

"A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it."

"He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed."

"Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning."

"It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time."

"The purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul."

"a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension."

"My patria vera or true fatherland is the place that enriches my soul."

"The people’s hero does not only have to be someone in possession of the scepter of power. It can be anyone capable of giving unity, prosperity, security, peace and a sense of worthiness to his people. Such a figure gets elevated to the status of a revered hero with the human touch if he imparts a sense of oneness on a multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-religious group; especially a diverse people who have been fighting one another for years and centuries..."

"A yesterday missed can never be found even in a fine tomorrow."

"What is the purpose of achieving your dream if the people you had dreamed your achievements for are no longer there to reap the benefits?"

"At what point is normal natural?"

"Isn’t reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?"

"Never give up the freeness of your soul. Live your duty to mankind, nurture creatures of this world as a true mother of the earth, but never shut your imagination off from those desires that distinguish you from the ordinary. Never allow yourself to be sapped of that extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive."

"Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have."