Peace is more difficult than war.

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.

His notes to the outside world offered a window on an active, sympathetic, eclectic mind.

If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people.

Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.

Joy is connection... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.

Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

Republican candidates have won whites with college degrees in every presidential election since polling began.

If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones.

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.