He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

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.

He was so far away now, or maybe he just looked distant because we were imaging different things for our future.

Words can be arrows that inflict wounds. They can also be bandages that heal.

The most important gifts we can give our children are confidence in their ability to remake themselves again and again and the tools with which to do that job

Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.

If people will listen, I will go anywhere in the world!

You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.

The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.

Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?