The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

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.

Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.

A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.

Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.

My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper.

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

Nothing that passes between us will ever be wrong. Come back to me.

Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.

I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a cutting down of mountains; that is precisely how it felt to me.

Politics is mainly about interests. As Muslim citizens, we understand these interests but we should put principles and dignity beyond everything.