You can never learn anything that you did not already know

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.

Don't just become a monument of information, rather a solace of knowledge refuge.

You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?

The quest for knowledge shouldn't stop at the highest level of school education. It is a never-ending process.

It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.

I love to have a laugh. I like to tease people.

Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

I've always been the type of person - you know, I kind of am extreme. So you know, I'm not, like, oh, let me get one tattoo. It's, like, my old whole arm has to be covered.

I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History