Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

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.

We are all special in God's eyes because He has designed us to carry His treasures.

The experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view.

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on

Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved.

It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.

Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

Walked right by an ex-girlfriend today. Not on purpose, I just didn't recognize her with her mouth closed.

The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.