The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

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.

In the human society, it is difficult to find all angels flapping there wings and all saints singing halleluya.

There's two of me. The person I carry around like a dead carcass inside of me and the one I show to others.

Even after she was gone, he passed her place each day: something white in a high window - not a face, but the white belly of a pigeon beating its wingsagainst the pane in the boarded-up house.

My job as a writer is simple.Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world.Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.

Sometimes the hardest, bravest thing in the world is to let someone love you.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

Hell, yeah! Meeting adjourned!

A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.