Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

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.

All I want is someone I can't resist ...I will know all I need to know by the way that I got kissed

Great love, great life.

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

Know all and you will pardon all.

The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

Be kind to everybody, be grateful, say thank you everyday. My parents taught me well.

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

I'm 40 and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy.

Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.