A friend is another I.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

Apparently it was unethical for lawyers to sleep with their clients. This from a man who offered legal representation to assassins.

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

Some people need God and some people need science.

I have a Google alert for myself - it's pure vanity.

I'm probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me.

The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

old folks is the nation.