No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.

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 most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

If you want to know the state of your personal consciousness, just look around and see what is happening to you.

For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.

The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.

Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

Animals don't have a voice, so I think it is our job to give them one.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.