The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

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.

You spend your TIME to make a DIME. You lose your HEALTH to make your WEALTH, but at the end it is FUNNY because you leave back all your MONEY.-RVM

I want to drag knives over my skin, just so that I can feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough to do that.

Faith is contagious when we show it to one another.

Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.

You can have control. You can have growth. But, you can't have both.

Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

People feel happier when they feel like they're progressing. When they feel like something in their life is growing or getting better.

I am such a goody-two-shoes.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

I like working with fish, so naturally I like seafood.