“It is my greatest wish to enable our people to live with nothing to envy at the earliest possible date, and it is my greatest pleasure to work energetically, sharing my joys and sorrows with our people, on the road of translating my wish into reality.”

“For sorrow is our joy,
And joy our greatest sorrow.
Elissa dies tonight,
And Carthage flames tomorrow.”

“My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.”

“I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgemental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.”

“My people are in the world again. No sorrow will live in my heart as long as that joy — save one, and I thank you for that, too.”

“He warned me the greediest wishes cause the greatest sorrows.”

“Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.”

“Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.”

“This is my best work, but only because The Flaming Angel is my greatest.”

“I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.”