Nader Kiselkov

“He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.”
― Plato

“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor”
― Alexis Carrel

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
― Confucius