Man by Nature desires to know.

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.

More friction and tensions are caused in a family by tone of voice than for any other one reason.

I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.

Sympathy is a characteristic trait of politicians and empathy an emotion of the masses.

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

Usually we are saying only part of the truth.

Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.

All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline.

I think it's the support from our parents. They want to see us succeed and do what we want to do.

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.