Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

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.

Heloise learned to love Abelard solely for who he was. That forbidden love brought her nothing but pain, but she would rather have shame and pain with Abelard than peace and happiness without him.

When life throws you curve balls, become a curve ball hitter.

Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.

Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?

I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care with their hearts, not just their heads.

Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water.

When you love without conditions, you the human and you the God, align with the spirit of life moving through you.

Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.

If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.