It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

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.

Faith is fruitfulness.

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

It’s lovely when writers I like like each other.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: 'We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.'

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

When you are leading, you have to take initiative.

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.