It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

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.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

A life with simplicity and joy is the best statement of success.

It is deep winter with shivering cold air, but my heart is dancing with joy and spring flowers.

Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North, ' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943.

Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.

Whoever coined the phrase, killing two birds with one stone, not only hated birds but also thought we needed to conserve stones.

Your most valuable currency is what comes most naturally to you. Cash in!

The loves of men but vary in degrees-- They find no new expression for the flame.

I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

I have a little bit of an out-of-body experience where I enjoy the scenario, and I really do like seeing a crowd turn into a mob, and I do nothing to stop it. People can become really dangerous.