Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

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.

No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, don't ever, ever, ever lose hope!

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Pique or policy. We would never know.

I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.

At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.

Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can't.