Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).

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.

In the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be discovered, from which all others are derived.

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.

Everything that gets born dies.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

If we never had any storms, we couldn't appreciate the sunshine.

Having a good constitution is far more important than having an immediate constitution.

Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.