Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

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.

The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.

A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.

I'm very happy in my law practice and my security firm.

You're either recording a hit song or you're not; you've either got something that's worth recording or you haven't.

The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.

I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.

Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?

I will rememeber you. Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by and don't forget all your memories.