When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

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.

I'm A Speaker, Your A Listener.

Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.

A Christian's celebration of Christmas should be a lot different from that of nonbelievers.

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.

I think the best thing for us is to just write songs that we like.

Don't just dream it. Be it!

What new psychology suggests, it's the factor that is top of consciousness at the moment before you make that economic decision that will win the day.

Honestly, I feel really grateful for everything.

How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?