Criticism is something you can easily avoid — by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

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.

I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it.

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.

The body says what words cannot.

It seems impossible that you can love one person so much, no matter what happens, no matter what they do.

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about as funny as a dog in sunglasses.

Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it

There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.