Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

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.

My grandmotherhad no time for old, no matter how her face crinkledor her days folded like an apron aroundher middle.

Rocked in the cradle of the deep I lay me down in peace to sleep.

We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

Our feet are our body's connection to the earth.

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?

A Woman Under the Influence was my favorite. I loved doing that. And it was challenging.

A bus ride is like being in another world.

I owe the baby my life. I owe this baby everything and I have a responsibility now.

Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result.