"The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort."

"As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family."

"There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy."

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

"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods."

"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken."

"We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day."

"It is a humble truth that the ocean of adversity cannot drown the spirit that resolves to stay afloat — an essential principle for the reflective life."