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.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Madness plants mirrors in the desert. I find the means frightening.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

You will win with either color if you are the better player, but it takes longer with Black.

I was a super shy, shy kid, so that was kind of my way of expressing myself - to mimic what I saw on TV. I was a bit of a weird kid, but luckily my parents encouraged it.

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

In a certain sense all men are historians.