The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

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.

Then, as she turned in a majestic arc for home, a beautiful sunrise appeared on the horizon, as golden and perfect as the very first ray of sun at the beginning of time.

I didn't die, and that's the point. Doesn't matter how close you come if you walk away whole.

Empathy allows us to enter the world of another. It allows us to take a mental vacation from ourselves.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Dracula and LSU Football are at their best after the sun goes down.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

Let somebody prove friendship which time and space cannot jolt, and then accept the love. Don't accept the love first and then find the friendship; it will never come. You have lost the game.

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.