The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

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.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Technology offers us a unique opportunity, though rarely welcome, to practice patience.

She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve.

Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.

You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.

Outside the ring I work hard when I train and I spend as much time as I can with my family when I'm not training.

And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.