"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."

"God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple."

"As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?"

"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."

"I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business."

"I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning."

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

"What other people think about me is not my business."