It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

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.

Travel teaches as much as a teacher.

There are no accidents, Anna. Everything correlates. Everything connects. Every detail bears a consequence. One instant begets the next. And the next. And the next.

Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet.

Did you ever have one of those nights when you didn't want to go out but your hair looked too good to stay home?

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

There is no success without failure and losses.

Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

...the heart is an organ of fire.

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.

I think sometimes older people wind up being a little childlike. They've done their time, now they get to do what they want.