It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

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.

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

In the haunted shade of the Ateneo, her hands wrote a curse on my skin that was to hound me for years.

Attractive things work better When you wash and wax a car, it drives better, doesn’t it? Or at least feels like it does.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.

Friends, much as in real life, are often more trouble than their worth.

I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.