I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.