It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

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.

Art like life is an open secret.

May love binds all mankind to live in harmony.

A good character will be recognized by a goodcharacter.Petra HermansSeptember 8, 2016

I’ve never done this before. I didn’t go to human bars. Mudslides aside, I’m not much of a drinker. Club people are not my people. Now, book-club people—

Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

Capitalism is not a Ponzi scheme. Capitalism is a scheme of free markets.

American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

Most ferocious was Kobe. Fiercest, most competitive, it was Kobe. D Wade is second after that.

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.