Art takes nature as its model.

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.

You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be.

All lasting wealth comes from enriching others in some way.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

Slow down, simplify and be kind.

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind - -vividly, forcefully.

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.