"Imagination is the weapon to fight off an impossibility."

"On the battlefield there is no distinction between royalty, nobility, and commons."

"Two most pursuable things in life beyond happiness are beauty and virtue."

"All men are born great but die on the way. But a virtuous never dies but once."

"I am deeply convinced that perfection lies in excess of thoughts and excess of problems. These will devour me and break me down into indivisible particles. And in the belly of a monster where I am laid in the narrowest binary of doing or not-doing, being or not-being, I let my instinct to find the perfect answer."

"Our objective as a realist is to maximize our worth, and our objective as a romanticist is to be foolishly youthful."