Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy

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.

Life is for living.

You can't guide someone into adulthood. The experiences are unique to each person. Deanna Troi

Never do an enemy a small injury.

The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

If I had not been a monk, I would have become an engineer.

I think I'll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that's fine. I have to make my peace with that.

In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.

My life is God's life in me for Him to do with what He wants.

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.