Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

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.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

With Saturday Night Live you're looking for any hook, any way to stay on the show.

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.

I am always concerned with ideas of territory and movement. Indeed, my first book after Bunker Archeology was entitled L'insecurite du territoire (1976).

Man believes in the possible, but God believes in the impossible.

Staplers--- Excellent source of iron

Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.