Hannibal Barca Personal Quotes

The best way to understand ones’ character is to find what they believe in. I do hold a special place for Hannibal Barca as an example for resolve and self-discipline; he said: “Aut viam inveniam aut faciam”: (I will either find a way, or make one). This quote inspires me to never give up and try hard as myriad times as needed to do for successfully reaching the final goals, even when I fail, I pull up and try again, it is the core of my inner self.

There is no denying that in difficult times it is important, what is the value weight of your decisions, I always placed my family interest and wellbeing before mine, that was the reason I choose, to interrupt the education by family reasons and start to provide for my family, and even I did choose
By the age of fifteen, I already read all of them.

Remembering my grandfather says: “It is never too late to learn!”, and I fully agree with that, I tried hard and sometimes in my pursuit of learning I took risky acts, like when I subscribed to the Library of the Embassy of USA in Sofia, Bulgaria during my high school years, to gain access to literature and science books that was not available or intentionally censored by the oppressive Bulgarian Communist government, and that act of mine almost cost the life of my parents.
During the Communist dictatorship in Bulgaria such act was qualified as an act of treason and the penalties was severe.

To put it in perspective, I studied with passion in my years of middle and high school, and graduate with high honors. Than I was forced to enroll in the Bulgarian military, the military service was mandatory at the time for all male Bulgarian citizens for two and half years. Regardless, that didn’t stop me to pursue more knowledge and continue self-learning in computer science (coding – Fortran and Basic), also Calculus and Statistics, continuing to study during the military service and prepare to apply for entry test with Technical University, Sofia, where I was