Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

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 day is short, the labor vast, the toilers idle, the reward great, and the Master urgent.

The thing I love most about Advent is the heartbreak. The utter and complete heartbreak.

The birds brought seeds & flowers & bits of brightly colored string & placed them in her hair while she slept so she would remember the wild joy of spring when she finally awoke.

The guy who trains the hardest, the most, wins.

The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it.

It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.

[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge.

Once you start making money you have to put things into perspective.

It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.

As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.