Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

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.

Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.

There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.

Was he a beast if music could move him so?

All women deserve access to care that can save their lives.

I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.

We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.

Tennis has always been a big challenge to me and to be able to play that kind of tennis - well, only tennis can produce these feelings for me.

I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.

It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.