If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

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.

And then I realized you were not rebellious but courageous. You know what that means? It means being scared but doing it anyway.

Men and women that don’t respond with solution to the challenges of the era are human biomasses.

It's a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven't been involved in the war in Iraq have taken far more responsibility for rehoming people displaced by the war than Britain has done.

When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone.

Compassion is a mental quality that can bring us true lasting inner peace and inner strength.

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream.

My parents are the ones who really help me be grounded. I still go to school, I still do fun stuff with my friends; for the most part, I am a normal kid. It just so happens that I do some acting too!

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.

The beet must be uprooted.