We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

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.

This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.

It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.

My most smelly job was at a kennels and cattery, and I basically spent all day scooping poop.

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.