Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

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.

It's not who you know, it's who you sleep with.

Most injuries heal in time, but guilt is a cancer that knows where to hide.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

I find great satisfaction in the rigorous structure of the grid, but I like the organic on the grid so that there's a combination of structure and chaos.

If I'm president, America will be very strong.

It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.