Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

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.

I have accepted that I don't know all the things that I ought to know, but I do know things that I need to know.

A little piece of everywhere I go becomes a big part of everything I do.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Why look worse when you can look better?

I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything.

The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!

You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance. Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys.

It must have been the summer of 1967, the Beatles were singing love is all you need. I held her hand as we walked through the arcades.

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.