The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

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.

Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death.

Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.

The world hangs like a heart-shaped locket around my neck.

You have infiltrated me completely, you make me feel alive Harlow, and I love that feeling. I have had my heart walled off for so long, and you have melted it so I can feel again. ~Beckett

Brotherton So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart To praise the Lord with feast and song In thankfulness of heart.

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

I love editing, and I don't mind when things are edited and you can see the editing.