Friends enhance our ability to think and act.

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.

Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.

155Sometimes I definitely feel a sense of accomplishment but it’s never after accomplishing something.

Which are you first, a Jew or an American? A Jew.

Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

I would categorize my books as literature, and I hope that is how they would be consumed. The books do not rely on the artwork to be understood, but I need my art practice to write them.

If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going.

It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.

If you do not pay for a service, you are the product they sell. So it ever has been.

Our most important problems cannot be solved; they must be outgrown.