“The greatness of a nation is dependent on the potentials of its citizens. Great nations don’t make great people, only great people make great nations”

“Conversion of time has elevated nations”

“Only when we pray for one another, we will have peace.”

“Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.”

“I felt nurtured by literature’s web of sentences, connected through them to this strange and dark universe.”

“In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.”

“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.”

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”