Man by nature wants 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.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background.

If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

If Im diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

I'm paid to make an idiot out of myself. Why do you do it for free?

You have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!'

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!