For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

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.

Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

This feeling to be on the best team of the world is just indescribable.

You must channel your energy towards what you love, for what you love is the foundation of your life.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.

The buddah can reside in the gears of a motorcycle as easily as in a flower on a mountaintop. To believe otherwise is to demean the buddah; which is to demean one's self.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.