.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

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.

Pursue money while you're alive, so that poverty will not pursue you when you're old.

He misses her. He wonders if she knows it, and can't decide which would be worse.

Keep practicing, " he told her."Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her."No. Until you don't get it wrong.

Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics.

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.

When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.

I don't believe in capital per se or a priori but I do occasionally believe in personal capital vis-a- vis psychic energy exchange. I use the word "capital" only poetically.

I love being on the periphery with a group of people who have the same values that I do. People who don't get off on fame, who just like the process of making movies and thrive.

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.

I find nothing wrong with striving for the impossible. But I find alot wrong with giving up