If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

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 good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Wherever there is ownership, there is upadhi (externally induced problems).

The action you will take today, will define tomorrow.

The Chairman likes you.”“Is that good?”“I never date anyone my cat doesn’t like, ” Magnus said easily, and stood up.

Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

He hadn't lost Grace. Because she'd never been his to lose in the first place.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

I've always been pretty happy with my style. I've been wearing tapered jeans since 1980 something.

Happiness is the only thing I understand.