Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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.

Only hardship softens the hardness of the human heart.

Sticks and stones may break your bones, and words – can cut your insides.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities.

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.

We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

Sometimes I do what I want to. The rest of the time- I do what I have to.