A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

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.

Sometimes the walk to the doctors is a better cure than the medicine you receive

It’s all inside of you—what you want, who you are, and who you want to be. Just give it time.” He pulls away and helps me to my feet. “Nobody makes you, you. You make yourself.

Few great things are achieved effortlessly.

The only one who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.

The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW.

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

I don't have moments of weakness. I'm Rik Mayall.

There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.

All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.