All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings there’s too much corruption in the world

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.

Amé, fuí amado, el sol acarició mi faz.¡Vida, nada me debes! ¡Vida, estamos en paz!I loved, I was loved, the sun stroked my face.Life, you owe me nothing! Life, we are at peace!

...they want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of sanction from us.

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

If a dog can love us unconditionally, why can't we love each other in the same way?

Maybe every once in a while we can take a break from doing everything faster and quicker to reflect on who we are and where we are going.

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

I have no rancor. I look forward, not backwards.

I...have a woman in my arms who has suffered greatly and desperately needs to believe once again that she is beautiful.

I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together