The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

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.

There is no force in the universe that can harm you, unless you allow it to.

Doubt is an acceptable risk for happiness.

We are the creators of our own destiny.

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.

The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.

For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.

An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.