When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

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.

Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.

Japan is the first nation in the world to accord 'comic books'--originally a 'humorous' form of entertainment mainly for young people--nearly the same social status as novels and films.

He ran from one side of the cage, and then back again, which was not very far. It was far only if you were a puppy.

It's so frightening, the nationalism in the air.

So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]

Nothing made me happen. I happened.