Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

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.

It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life, from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own - how small and fleeting my pulse was when set alongside those ageing spines.

To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.

I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.

Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.

I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.

Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.

You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.