Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

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.

Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and "art" itself has become satire.

They say tall people live a lot longer than short people. No they don't. They're just so irritating it seems they are around a lot longer.

The theory of the indirect approach operates on the line of least expectation.

In Heaven we shall not rest from our work, but from our labors. There will be no toil, no pain in the work.

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

Where I went, no one could follow. Yet someone managed to hold my hand.

Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music.

It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson, who is a legend.