It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

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.

You cannot understand God if you don’t understand people

I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.

Aryal whispered, "If I start slapping people, I might not be able to stop.

Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.

I can come up sometimes with ideas for scenes that I'm not in, to make it better or add something. It's not about me, or my ego, that I wanna show this or that.

All of us are crazy in one or another way.