Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

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 live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death".

The universe is a big place. Maybe we're not in the best neighborhood.

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 oclock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 oclock.

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

We should take heed of pride; it is a sin that turned angels into devils.

Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly.

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.