Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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.

If you are going through hell, keep walking until you reach heaven.

My greatest fear is time wasted—a life spent. My greatest fear is passing away from this world without leaving a lasting impact.

All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing.

Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead.

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

You never stand beside the same river twice; you have to keep looking upstream.

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

The internet will create the winnerand bury the laggards.

How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. The Awful Aunty took me 10 days.