Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

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.

Education without the knowledge of the Holy One is the darkest doom.

I’ve never had the luxury of political opinions

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can't wait to visit again.

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

I've also never written anything really in LA.

I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.