The actuality of thought is 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.

Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.

There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged

On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you.' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me?

Libraries help you to dream!

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.

....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

... Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say anything evil!