It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

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.

How can you find your soul, if you please every soul?

Love is like a chill, it touches your heart, fills your mind, and makes you kind.

The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems.

Want? Yes, she whispered, her eyes sliding closed. Yes I want to keep you more than I want to breathe.

Happiness is having a large loving caring close-knit family in another city.

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.

Of course prostitutes have babies. Where do you think traffic wardens come from?

It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.