Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited 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.

You were born into the world to fulfill a specific purpose in life. May you recognised your unique calling.

Much of modern life is based upon a false logic, a logic that assumes that happiness and well-being come from financial prosperity.

Under the sea the old fish eat the young fish.

I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again.

We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.

Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.