Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

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.

There’s more to life than increasing its speed.

One person with a divine purpose, passion and power is better than 99 people who are merely interested. Passion is stronger than interest.

No one controls who we turn into but us.

I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.

You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.

Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I like to mix things up.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

If you don’t stay with your winners, you are not going to be able to pay for the losers.

He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running.

My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is.