The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

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.

Three quarters of faith is boldness.Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence.Three quarters of love is kindness.

. . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Truth is often attended with danger.

A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.

I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.

I'm quite a competitive person, so I do quite like to win.

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

The NHS is a bit iffy when you sprain an ankle, but when it's a high-priority issue, it's fantastic. They don't mess about. They're incredibly efficient when things go wrong.

Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them.