The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

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.

Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property in which our contemporary government of criminals aspires to plunder from our compatriots by the means of unconstitutional surveillance.

What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause but what they say about their opponents.

The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

I don't know much about cars," Joyce said, "but I think someone took my engine.

I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.

This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.

There is no traffic congestion on the straight and narrow path.