One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

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.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, butfor the heart to conquer it.

fall in lovewith your solitude

Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

Whatever behavior you've experienced from people in the past, expect them to do it again and again and again.

the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.