Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

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.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit. (Junot Diaz)

Nothing makes us so beautiful as our smiles.

Find mebeneath your tongue, but not with other lipsnor by another tongueFind melet your yearning run wild as thirst seeks wateras silence seeks the soundFind meand I will be on my way...

A man going straight towards his goals turns challenges into opportunities and improves himself through overcoming obstacles

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

You can't be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.

We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II.

When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically