The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

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.

Don’t become that which you fear most.

If loving comes easy, nothing else seems hard.

When you have nothing to lose, you have everything to gain...

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.

Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.