The end toward which all human acts are directed is happiness.

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.

Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.

No matter who you are, or what side of the tracks society thinks you are from, if you wake up wanting to write, then do what you must to write.

Twilight …Not just a metaphorThe metaphor of the ‘spirit’The confluence of life and deathThe celestial dance of existential and essential(Page 75)

Making an effort can be equated to not doing anything at all. You don't make an effort to walk, you just walk. It's the same with winning. You don't make an effort to win, you just do it.

What a day may bring a day may take away.

The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.

"Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny."

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

Britain's got talent, enormous talent, that's very obvious.

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.