“In an ignorant country, everything will try to drag you down! Stay firm, aim at the stars, keep going up and drag up the people who are trying to drag you down!”

“A country either elevates the ignorant to the level of the learned or it itself sinks down to the level of the ignorant.”

“We are all on the stairs, my friend; some of us are going down, some us are going up!”

“For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down for you!”

“Applauds of the ignorant majority are worthless; applauds of the wise minority are priceless! Look carefully, who are applauding you? Look carefully, who are blessing you? Mud in the ground or stars in the sky?”

“Archimedes once said that ‘Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.’ There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!”

“A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air.”