For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

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.

To be able to possess a machine in such a way is the ultimate show of determination and awareness. It makes one realize that the physicality of our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak

Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is.

Airport screeners are now scanning holiday fruitcakes. Not even the scanners can tell what those little red things are.

I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.

My favorite thing to do is eat and eat well.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.

Life is like the rungs on a ladder. The reason they are placed so close together is that we can learn to take baby steps and reach our destinations safely.

I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.