Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

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.

Human kind is already perfect, Technology is getting stronger but we are getting weaker

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear>

Time is a river without banks.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time.

Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

Reading is where the wild things are.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.