Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

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.

The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.

The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded me to man before, and that without wound or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.

Lines have to smile. There have to be life, blood and heart in things you let go. They have to be human, warm and alive

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

I couldn't get you to the ocean, but there was nothing stopping me bringing the ocean to you.

We must love or we grow ill.

A transition is taking place in Egypt. In my judgement, there is no going back. I think the old expression, "They're not going to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.