Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

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.

The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.

We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

It is legitimate for the Turks to try to defend themselves.

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

People don't realize how long hours are when you're shooting a movie.

To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.