Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

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.

Those who don't plan will end up delaying their dreams, visions, and goals

Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can.

Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.