Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve 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.

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.

On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.

I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull.

This opens the door on another chapter of history.