...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

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.

Energy doesn't communicate in English, French, Chinese or Swahili, but it does speak clearly

That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.

My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.