Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence.

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 thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.

True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.

I have to be sure of myself - in a conditional way, always being open to the possibility that I'm wrong.

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

The first time I'd ever felt happy-and I mean ever-was when I'd been lying in my bed, staring out my window, watching the stars shine harmoniosly with one another.

The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.

I hate that word dysfunction.

The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open up your heart and not be afraid to get them out.

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.