Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

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.

He understood it then. The potential, the utter, unbelievable freedom to be whoever existed underneath his skin.

If beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, value is in the mind of the consumer.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain.

Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures.

I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.

The four words that will define this century: The Earth is full.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.